Dan Lyons joined NEWSWEEK in August 2008 as a senior editor and columnist, covering technology.  He writes the biweekly column "Techtonic Shifts" for the magazine and articles for Newsweek.com.

Before coming to NEWSWEEK, Lyons was a senior editor at Forbes, where he also wrote a column called "Digital Tools." He is best known for the blog he created in 2006 called "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," which attracted more than one million page views a month.

Lyons is also the author of an award-winning collection of short stories, called "The Last Good Man" and two novels "Dog Days" and "Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs."

Prior to Forbes, Lyons was a freelance journalist covering technology, from 1990-98 and senior writer at PC Week from 1987-90.  He was a copy editor at the Boston Herald from 1987-87 and was a reporter at the Eagle-Tribune in North Andover, Mass. From 1983-86.

Lyons earned an MFA from the University of Michigan in 1992 and a BA from Bradford College. He lives in Winchester, Mass, with his wife and their two children.