Zayd Ayers Dohrn

Writer of plays, films, podcasts. New book, DANGEROUS, DIRTY, VIOLENT, AND YOUNG:

[Zayd Ayers Dohrn @ZaydDohrn]

Hey friends, I have a new book coming out this spring! A follow up to MOTHER COUNTRY RADICALS.
I hope you'll check it out! Preorder now:
https://t.co/eemq9NWsy2

[Zayd Ayers Dohrn @ZaydDohrn]

Theater top 10 for fall 2026: Culture wars, campus controversies and epic change https://t.co/Z4mlO46uFR

[Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune]

Victory Gardens Theater will return to producing shows at the Biograph Theatre in September with the world premiere of “The Humanities,” a new play by playwright, screenwriter and Northwestern University professor Zayd Ayers Dohrn. https://t.co/znndnhIfzQ

[Zayd Ayers Dohrn @ZaydDohrn]

Chicago! My new play THE HUMANITIES is coming this fall @VictoryGardens, at the historic Biograph Theater.

Directed by Edward Torres, the play runs Sept 10th - Oct 4th. Tickets at the Victory Gardens website.

Hope to see you there!

[Columbia Magazine @columbiamag]

In a new memoir, @Columbia alumnus @ZaydDohrn '06GSAS recounts a childhood spent partially on the lam, and wrestles with his parents’ ideals and the incredible risks that they took to act on them. https://t.co/dqKUqt4Ddk

[HistoryNerdsUnited @HistNerdsUnited]

Mother knows best. I mean bombs.

My review of Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young by @ZaydDohrn from @wwnorton. A memoir about the author growing up on the run with his fugitive parents who were the leaders of the Weather Underground.

Read it here: https://t.co/8RNtzGTRPK

Don't miss Zayd on the podcast this Wednesday!

#WeatherUnderground #1960sHistory #AmericanRadicalism #PoliticalHistory #Memoir #BookReview #HistoryBooks #HistoryNerd #HistoryLovers #BookstagramHistory

[Zayd Ayers Dohrn @ZaydDohrn]

@JohnSmithnbhc @vintagebooks @ChattoBooks Glad you like it. I wonder why you're not my target audience? Yes, really liked Running on Empty when I was growing up

[Zayd Ayers Dohrn @ZaydDohrn]

UK edition of DANGEROUS, DIRTY, VIOLENT, AND YOUNG out now from @vintagebooks and @ChattoBooks!

[Lola García-Ajofrín @Lolagars]

Qué historia. Y qué libro.
Hemos hablado en @elconfidencial con @ZaydDohrn sobre su infancia clandestina, su padres (fundadores del grupo Weather Underground) y los paralelismos con el momento que vive EEUU.

[Publishing Well @PublishingWell]

Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young by Zayd Ayers Dohrn review – child of the revolution 📚 ⤵️ https://t.co/ZmnKKOKERA

[Truthdig @Truthdig]

In a new memoir, Zayd Ayers Dohrn comes clean about growing up in the first family of American radicalism.

https://t.co/d0KPcTr0E0

[Robin Young @hereandnowrobin]

thanks @ZaydDohrn for talk about being born into the radical #WeatherUnderground , child of Weathermen #BernadeenDohrn and #BillAyers "Dangerous Dirty Violent and Young", terrific read. @wwnorton
https://t.co/wlAPRp0Mpu

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s memoir of growing up as the child of Weather Underground revolutionaries is most impressive when it is willing to examine moments of doubt about the sectarian violence of the 1960s and ’70s. https://t.co/LAa0rImgeh

[The American Scholar @TheAmScho]

“When I was just 3 years old, I learned to recognize plainclothes police officers and undercover agents in a crowd.”—Zayd Ayers Dohrn, who joins Stephanie Bastek on the Smarty Pants podcast.

https://t.co/x6Ho0oVlaS

[Zayd Ayers Dohrn @ZaydDohrn]

Had a fun conversation with fellow weather kid Harriet Clark in the @nytimes about DANGEROUS, DIRTY, VIOLENT, AND YOUNG and her beautiful new novel
THE HILL

https://t.co/trWFB7vecw

[Crooked Media @CrookedMedia]

What do the 1960s have to do with political violence today? More than we'd like to admit.

[Zayd Ayers Dohrn @ZaydDohrn]

Lovely review of DANGEROUS DIRTY VIOLENT AND YOUNG in the @nytimes

[Hartford Courant @hartfordcourant]

“Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young” is Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s remarkable memoir confronting his parents, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground. https://t.co/35zuZgfVmA

[Zayd Ayers Dohrn @ZaydDohrn]

Special bonus episode of MOTHER COUNTRY RADICALS from @CrookedMedia out today. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts

[Zayd Ayers Dohrn @ZaydDohrn]

@jvorster81 Would love to get up there. Stay tuned!

[Zayd Ayers Dohrn @ZaydDohrn]

Hey friends—my book comes out May 19, and we’re going on a DANGEROUS DIRTY national tour! If we’re in your city, please come through, and help spread the word to writers, readers, outlaws, or revolutionaries who might be interested