Tom Acitelli is the author of The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution (Chicago Review Press; May 2013; 416 pages), the first history book of the American craft beer movement. He is a regular contributor to Town & Country and is the founding editor of Curbed Boston. He was a senior editor at The New York Observer for five years; and has also written for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg View, the New York Post, Redbook and All About Beer, the leading trade magazine for the American brewing industry. He earned degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Columbia Journalism School; and lives in Cambridge, Mass., with his wife, an art historian.