Early Life
Hodgman was born and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts. He attended the Heath School and Brookline High School where he edited the underground magazine Samizdat, named for the grassroots dissident literature movement produced under the Soviet Bloc. During his last year of high school, he hosted the weekly Radio Consuelo show on freeform station WMFO in Medford.
In 1994 Hodgman graduated from Yale University with a degree in literature. Before gaining fame as a writer, Hodgman worked as a literary agent at Writers House in New York City, where he represented Darin Strauss, Deborah Digges, and actor Bruce Campbell, among others. Hodgman has used his experience as an agent in his column “Ask a Former Professional Literary Agent” at McSweeney's Internet Tendency.
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