Dan Lyons is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. He is a co-producer and co-writer for the HBO series Silicon Valley. Previously, he was technology editor at Newsweek and the creator of the groundbreaking viral blog "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs." He has written for the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Wired. His fiction has earned both a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship and the Playboy College Fiction Prize. He has a BA from Bradford College and an MFA from the University of Michigan.