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Andrew Schuyler Magary (born 7 October 1976) is an American journalist, humor columnist, and novelist. He was a correspondent for GQ, has written three novels, and formerly was a long-time columnist for Deadspin. He currently writes for Defector Media and SFGate and is the author of The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life after Brain Damage, a memoir chronicling his brain injury and subsequent recovery.

Andrew Schuyler Magary was born in Wahroonga, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. He moved with his parents to the U.S. at the age of four months and grew up in Minnesota and Connecticut. Both of Magary's parents and his two siblings are American-born; Magary was born while his family briefly relocated to Sydney for his father's job. He attended the University of Michigan before transferring to Colby College in Maine, where he majored in English and participated in the drama club. Early in his career, Magary worked in advertising.