He has profiled the leading figures and companies of the Information Age, including Bill Gates, Reed Hastings, Sheryl Sandberg, Rupert Murdoch, John Malone, and the "New York Times". Auletta has been named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. He has won numerous journalism awards, and was selected as one of the twentieth century's top one hundred business journalists. He has served as a Pulitzer Prize juror, and for nearly three decades has been a judge of the annual national Livingston Award for young journalists. He has twice served as a board member of International PEN, and was a longtime trustee and member of the Executive Committee of The Public Theater / New York Shakespeare Festival. Auletta lives in Manhattan with his wife Amanda "Binky" Urban, a literary agent. He was satirized as "Ken Fellata" in "The New Republic" by Jacob Weisberg and future "New Yorker" staff writer Malcolm Gladwell.