Kit Rachlis was born in Paris and raised in New York City. He earned a B.A. in American studies from Yale in 1975. He has served as music editor and arts editor of the Boston Phoenix (1977-1984), executive editor of New York’s Village Voice (1984 -1988), editor-in-chief of the LA Weekly (1988-1993), and senior editor at The Los Angeles Times Magazine and the paper’s senior projects editor (1994-2000). In 2000, he became editor-in-chief of Los Angeles. During his tenure, the magazine has been nominated for a National Magazine Award five times and received more city and regional magazine awards than any other magazine. Rachlis’s writing has appeared in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll and Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island.