Scott Timberg


Scott Timberg was an American journalist, culture writer, and editor. He was best known as an authority on southern California culture and for his book .

Early life

Scott Robert Timberg was born in Stanford, California, son of journalist and author Robert Timberg and Jane Timberg. He was raised in Maryland. Scott earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in 1991 and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He attended a term abroad at the University of Sussex. His grandfather was composer Sammy Timberg.

Career

Scott started his journalism career at in New London, Connecticut. He moved to Los Angeles in 1997 to join the staff of New Times LA. He was a long-time staff writer for the ' until 2008 and a staff writer for '. As a freelancer he wrote for the The New York Times and Los Angeles Magazine, among others. Timberg spent the longest period of his life in Los Angeles, with a year in Athens, Georgia in 2015.

Books

Timberg's book won the Award in 2015. The New Yorker called it "a quietly radical rethinking of the very nature of art in modern life".

Personal life and death

Timberg married Sara Scribner, a school librarian and journalist, and they have one son.
Timberg was a victim of suicide on December 10, 2019 in Los Angeles, CA.