Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik
close-up of Adam Gopnik wearing a light striped shirt and dark blazer, with a headset microphone, looking intently just right of camera
Gopnik in 2014
Born (1956-08-24) August 24, 1956 (age 68)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • essayist
  • commentator
EducationMcGill University (BA)
Period1986–present
Website
adamgopnik.com

Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956) is an American writer and essayist. He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker, to which he has contributed nonfiction, fiction, memoir, and criticism since 1986.[1]

He is the author of nine books, including Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate, The King in the Window, and A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism. In 2020, his essay "The Driver's Seat" was cited as the most-assigned piece of contemporary nonfiction in the English-language syllabus.[2]

  1. ^ "Contributors: Adam Gopnik". The New Yorker. n.d. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
  2. ^ @opensyllabus (August 24, 2020). "So what's the most-assigned piece of journalism in the corpus? If you count historical pieces, probably Vannevar Bush's 'As We May Think' – originally in The Atlantic" (Tweet) – via Twitter.