Steven Levy is an American journalist and editor at large for Wired. He has written extensively on computers, technology, cryptography, the internet, cybersecurity, and privacy. He is the author of the 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which chronicles the early days of the computer underground.

Levy has published eight books covering topics such as computer hacker culture, artificial intelligence, cryptography, and multi-year exposés of major companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. His most recent book, Facebook: The Inside Story, recounts the history and rise of Facebook based on three years of interviews with employees, including Chamath Palihapitiya, Sheryl Sandberg, and Mark Zuckerberg.

For almost four decades, Levy has chronicled the digital revolution, its impact on humanity, and the people behind it. His foundational work on computer culture, Hackers, and the indispensable Crypto on cryptography, have been influential in the field. World-class engineers have been inspired by his writing, pursuing AI after reading his 1992 book Artificial Life.

He currently covers tech stories for WIRED, where he has been a contributor since its inception. Levy's previous positions include founder of Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for Newsweek. His work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper’s Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine.

Among his honors, PC Magazine named Hackers the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years. His book Crypto won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair. In the Plex was Amazon’s best business book of 2011. In 2008, he was inducted as a SVForum Visionary, alongside Reed Hastings and Diane Greene.

Steven Levy hails from Philadelphia, where he began his career writing for weekly papers and magazines. He lives in New York City with his wife, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Teresa Carpenter.