| 1 | Name: | Mr. David Remnick | |
| Institution: | The New Yorker | ||
| Year Elected: | 2008 | ||
| Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
| Subdivision: | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1958 | ||
David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker magazine. He graduated from Princeton University in 1981 and the following year became a staff writer at The Washington Post. In 1988 he was appointed the newspaper's Moscow correspondent and won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting during the break up of the Soviet Union. Also from that experience came a first rate and very original book, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. At the age of forty, Remnick became the editor of The New Yorker, a magazine the importance of which in American cultural history cannot be overstated. Remnick not only stabilized the maagazine after a period of turmoil but brought it back to the traditions of the highest level of political and cultural journalism and critical writing on literature and the arts. At the same time, Remnick has continued to write extensively, producing first rate pieces on Russia and Israel as well as a thumping book on Muhammad Ali. Remnick's most recent publication is Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker (2006). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2006). David Remnick was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008. | |||