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| Born | August 24, 1956 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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| Education | McGill University (BA) |
| Period | 1986–present |
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Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956) is an American writer and essayist, who was raised in Montreal, Canada.[1] He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker, to which he has contributed nonfiction, fiction, memoir, and criticism since 1986.[2]
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.[3]
- ^ Freeman, Hadley (December 8, 2017). "Adam Gopnik: 'You're waltzing along and suddenly you're portrayed as a monster of privilege'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 27, 2024.
- ^ "Contributors: Adam Gopnik". The New Yorker. n.d. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
- ^ @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.