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Atul Gawande was named a staff writer at The New Yorker in October, 1998. His articles covering medicine and science have included a piece on medical mistakes, an examination of cancer clusters, a new theory on the origin and cause of pain, and a look at the international effort to eradicate polio. His book, “Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science,” was published in 2002.
Gawande is a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has served in government on several occasions, most recently as a senior health policy adviser in the Clinton Administration.
Gawande graduated from Harvard Medical School. He received an M.A. in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University, and a master’s in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with his wife and three children.
Malcolm Gladwell joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in June, 1996. His articles include reports on the inventor of the birth-control pill, the power of personal connectors (“Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg”), the science of coolhunting, retail anthropology, race and sports, sport-utility vehicles, and physical genius.
In 2001, Gladwell’s piece on Ron Popeil, “The Pitchman,” was awarded the National Magazine Award for Profiles. In 2000, his 1997 article on the 1918 influenza pandemic was turned into a television movie. His 1996 New Yorker article “The Tipping Point” coined the phrase, and was expanded into a book, “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference” (2000). His second book, “Blink,” was published by Little, Brown in January, 2005.
Gladwell came to The New Yorker from the Washington Post, where he began as a staff writer in 1987, first in the business section and later as a science reporter. In 1993, he was named the newspaper’s New York City bureau chief. In 1995, he was a National Magazine Award finalist for an article on mammography published in The New Republic.
Gladwell was born in England and graduated with a degree in history from the University of Toronto. He lives in New York.
Jeffrey Goldberg has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since October, 2000, and was named Washington Correspondent in January, 2005. Previously, he specialized in foreign reporting, with an emphasis on the Middle East and Africa, and has covered the Palestinian uprising, the Israeli settlement movement, and the war in Iraq from Kurdistan and Northern Iraq.
In 2003, he won the Overseas Press Club Award for Human Rights for his eighteen-thousand word piece, “The Great Terror,” about the Iraqi use of chemical and biological weapons against the Kurdish people of northern Iraq. That same year, he received the National Magazine Award for Reporting for a two-part article about Hezbollah, “In the Party of God,” which appeared in the magazine in the issues of October 14 & 21 and October 28, 2002.
Goldberg came to The New Yorker from the New York Times Magazine, where he had been a contributing writer reporting from Africa and the Middle East. Before joining the Times Magazine, Goldberg was a contributing editor at New York magazine. Goldberg has also served as the New York Bureau Chief of the Forward, as a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, as a police reporter for the Washington Post, and as a contributor to Slate. He is currently writing his first book, tentatively titled “Prisoners,” a nonfiction work about the Middle East.
Goldberg attended the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and three children.
Paul Goldberger has been the architecture critic at The New Yorker since July, 1997, writing about architecture, design, and urbanism. He was named Dean of the Parsons School of Design in April, 2004.
Goldberger came to The New Yorker following a twenty-five-year career at the New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for his architecture criticism in 1984. He joined the staff of the Times in 1972, and was named architecture critic in 1973. In 1990, he was named cultural news editor of the Times, and in 1994, he became the paper’s chief cultural correspondent.
Goldberger lectures widely around the country on the subject of architecture, design, historic preservation and cities, and for several years taught architecture criticism at the Yale School of Architecture. He has also served as a special consultant to several major cultural and educational institutions, including the Morgan Library in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, and the Ross Institute in East Hampton, New York, organizing and directing the process of selecting an architect.
In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Goldberger’s work as a critic and historic preservationist has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Medal of the American Institute of Architects, the President’s Medal of the Municipal Art Society of New York, the Medal of Honor of the New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation, and the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission’s Preservation Achievement Award. He has also received the Roger Starr Journalism Award from the Citizens Housing and Planning Council; the Award of Merit of the Lotus Club, presented to writers of distinction; and in 1993, he was named a Literary Lion, the New York Public Library’s tribute to distinguished writers.
He is the author of several books, including text for “The World Trade Center Remembered” and “Manhattan Unfurled.” He has also written “The City Observed—New York: An Architectural Guide to Manhattan,” “The Skyscraper,” “On the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Post-Modern Age,” “Houses of the Hamptons,” and “Above New York.” His most recent book is “Up from Zero : Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York.”
Goldberger graduated in 1972 from Yale University, where he studied architectural history with Vincent Scully. He and his wife, Susan Solomon, are the parents of three sons, Adam, Ben, and Alex. They live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Adam Gopnik has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1986. In October 2000, he began writing New York Journal, about the culture and daily life of New York City. He previously spent five years in Paris, writing Paris Journal, a similar column about the life of an expatriate in Paris. Gopnik is the author of the best-selling book “Paris to the Moon” (Random House, 2000), which is a collection of these essays.
Prior to his European assignment, Gopnik served as The New Yorker’s art critic. During his tenure at the magazine, he has also written fiction and humor pieces, book reviews, profiles, reporting pieces, and more than a hundred stories for Talk of the Town and Comment.
Gopnik’s pieces have been awarded three National Magazine Awards: “Times Regained,” “The Big One,” and “Will Power” received the 2005 award for Reviews and Criticism, “Like A King” received the 2001 award for Essays, and “Escaping Picasso” received the 1997 award for Essays & Criticism. In 1998, he received the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting for his Paris Journal.
Gopnik came to The New Yorker from Alfred A. Knopf, where he was an editor from 1985 to 1987. While at the publishing house, he edited books by such authors as Wilfred Sheed and Bill Franzen. From 1983 until 1985, he was the fiction editor at GQ and helped create the magazine’s fiction department.
In 1990, Gopnik co-curated an exhibition entitled “High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, with the museum’s director, Kirk Varnedoe. He also co-authored the book under the same title. Other published material includes an essay on the life and work of photographer Richard Avedon in “Richard Avedon: Evidence 1944-1994” (Random House, 1994) and the article on the culture of the United States in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Born in Philadelphia and raised in Montreal, Gopnik holds a B.A. from McGill University and an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He lives in New York with his wife and two children.
Philip Gourevitch has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since April, 1997, and served as Washington Correspondent in 2004. For “After the Genocide,” one of a series of pieces on the Rwandan tragedy, he won a citation from the Overseas Press Club. He was also a finalist for a National Magazine Award in both 1996 and 1997.
Gourevitch’s first book, “We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda,” was published in September, 1998, by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the George Polk Award for nonfiction, the Overseas Press Club Book Award, the Helen Bernstein Book Award of the New York Public Library, the pen/Martha Albrand Award for first nonfiction, and, in England, the Guardian First Book award.
His second book, “A Cold Case,” based on a story that first appeared in The New Yorker in February, 2000, was published in 2001, by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.
Before coming to The New Yorker, Gourevitch was the New York Bureau Chief at The Forward from 1992 to 1993, and Cultural Editor from 1993 to 1995. Gourevitch has also written for Harper’s, Granta, The New York Review of Books, Southwest Review, Story, Zoetrope, and other journals.
Gourevitch received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1986 and an M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1992. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.
David Grann has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since July, 2003. His articles have covered everything from New York City’s antiquated water tunnels to the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang to the search for the giant squid. His stories have also been chosen for many anthologies, including the best-selling “What We Saw: The Events of September 11”; “The Best American Crime Writing” of both 2004 and 2005; and “The Best American Sports Writing” of 2003. In addition, his stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic, where he is also a contributing editor.
Before joining The New Yorker, Grann was a senior editor at The New Republic, and, from 1995 until 1996, executive editor of The Hill newspaper. Grann holds Master’s Degrees in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and in creative writing from Boston University. He graduated summa cum laude from Connecticut College in 1989 and subsequently spent a year in Mexico on a Thomas Watson Fellowship. He lives in New York with his family.
Jerome Groopman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. He writes about medicine and biology. He holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and is Chief of Experimental Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Groopman’s first book, “The Measure of Our Days,” an exploration of the spiritual lives of patients with serious illnesses and the opportunities for fulfillment they sometimes find, was published in 1997. His editorials on policy issues have appeared in The New Republic, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. His most recent book, “The Anatomy of Hope,” published in 2003, was a New York Times best-seller.
Dr. Groopman has served on the Advisory Council to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for aids-related matters, as Consultant for the Center for Biological Evaluation and Research at the FDA, and as a member of the FDA’s Senior Biomedical Service Credentials Committee. He was also Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the FDA for Biological Response Modifiers, and was an original member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences Committee on AIDS. He serves on many scientific editorial boards and has published more than a hundred and fifty scientific articles.
Dr. Groopman’s research has focussed on the basic mechanisms of cancer and aids. He did seminal work on identifying growth factors which may restore the depressed immune systems of aids patients and on treatment for aids-related neoplasms, and has been a major participant in the development of many aids-related therapies, including AZT, ddI, ddC, d4T, 3TC, and, most recently, protease inhibitors. His basic laboratory research involves understanding how blood cells grow and communicate (“signal transduction”), and how viruses cause immune deficiency and cancer. He is active in regional and national education activities in aids and cancer medicine as well as in the training and education of young scientists in these fields. Recently, Dr. Groopman has extended the research infrastructure in genetics and cell biology to studies in breast cancer and neurobiology.
Dr. Groopman received his B.A. from Columbia College summa cum laude and his M.D. from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He lives in Massachusetts.
Seymour M. Hersh first wrote for The New Yorker in 1971 and has been a regular contributor to the magazine since 1993. His journalism and publishing prizes include the Pulitzer Prize, five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes (Sigma Delta Chi, Worth Bingham, Sidney Hillman, etc.) for investigative reporting on My Lai, the C.I.A.’s bombing of Cambodia, Henry Kissinger’s wiretapping, and the C.I.A.’s efforts against Chile’s Salvador Allende, among other topics. In 2004, Hersh was responsible for exposing the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in a series of pieces in the magazine; early in 2005, he received the National Magazine Award for Public Interest, an Overseas Press Club award, the National Press Foundation’s W. M. Kiplinger Distinguished Contributions to Journalism award, and his fifth George W. Polk award, making him that award’s most honored laureate.
Hersh was born in Chicago, in 1937, and graduated in 1958 from the University of Chicago. He began his newspaper career as a police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago. He served in the Army and worked for a suburban newspaper and then for UPI and AP until late 1967, when he joined the Presidential campaign of Eugene J. McCarthy as speechwriter and press secretary. Hersh joined the New York Times in 1972, working in Washington and New York. He left the paper in 1979 and has been a freelance writer since, with two six-month returns on special assignment to the Timess Washington bureau.
Hersh has published eight books, most recently, “Chain of Command,” which was based on his reporting for The New Yorker on Abu Ghraib. His book prizes include the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times award for biography, and a second Sidney Hillman award, for “The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House.” Hersh has also won two Investigative Reporters & Editors prizes, for the Kissinger book, in 1983, and for a study of American foreign policy and the Israeli nuclear bomb program, “The Samson Option,” in 1992. In 2004, Hersh won a National Magazine Award for public interest for his three pieces, “Lunch with the Chairman,” “Selective Intelligence,” and “The Stovepipe.”
Hersh is married, with three children, and lives in Washington, D.C.
Hendrik Hertzberg is a senior editor and staff writer at The New Yorker. He returned to the magazine in 1992—having been a staff writer from 1969 to 1977—and has served as both Editorial Director and Executive Editor of the magazine.
Hertzberg came to The New Yorker from The New Republic, where he served two terms as editor, from 1981 until 1985, and then again from 1988 until 1991. He spent his hiatus from that magazine as a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and at the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.
During Hertzberg’s second tenure as editor, The New Republic was nominated for seven National Magazine Awards and won three, including back-to-back awards for General Excellence in 1990 and 1991. While at The New Republic, Hertzberg also held the positions of contributing editor, national political correspondent, senior editor, and columnist.
From 1979 until 1981, Hertzberg was the chief speechwriter for President Carter, and served on the White House Staff throughout the Carter administration. He began his career as a San Francisco correspondent for Newsweek.
Hertzberg received his B.A. from Harvard. He lives in New York City with his wife, Virginia Cannon, who is also a New Yorker senior editor, and their son.
Peter Hessler joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2000 and is the magazine’s correspondent in the People’s Republic of China, where he has lived since 1996. His Letter from China pieces have included profiles of basketball player Yao Ming, a Uighur dissident who emigrated illegally from Beijing to the United States, a Shenzhen factory worker, and a rural family in the grip of a medical crisis. He has also written about being robbed on the border between China and North Korea, the Mongolian presidential elections, and the Three Gorges Dam.
Prior to joining The New Yorker, Hessler spent two years with the Peace Corps, an experience he recounted in his book “River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze,” which won the Kiriyama Prize and was short-listed for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. His stories have also appeared in the “Best American Travel Writing” of 2001, 2004, and 2005, and the “Best American Sports Writing” of 2004. His second book, “Oracle Bones,” will be published by HarperCollins, in 2006.
Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since January, 1999. She came to the magazine from the New York Times, where she wrote the Metro Matters column. Previously, from 1992 to 1997, she was a political and media reporter for the paper. In that time, she covered the 1992 and 1996 national elections and wrote profiles of many prominent politicians. She has also contributed articles to the New York Times Magazine on subjects ranging from the use of focus groups in elections to the New York water supply. From 1988 to 1991, she was the New York Times Albany Bureau Chief. Kolbert began working for the Times in 1984 as a stringer based in Germany and moved to the metro desk in 1985.
Kolbert’s first book, “The Prophet of Love: And Other Tales of Power and Deceit” was published by Bloomsbury, in 2004.
Kolbert received a B.A. from Yale University in 1983, and lives in Massachusetts, with her husband and their three sons.
Jane Kramer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1964. She has been writing the Letter from Europe since 1981.
Prior to joining the magazine, Kramer was a staff writer for The Village Voice, and her first book, “Off Washington Square,” is a collection of her articles from that time. Two books followed that compiled material that originally appeared in The New Yorker: “Allen Ginsberg in America” (1969) and “Honor to the Bride” (1970), which was based on her experiences in Morocco in the late nineteen-sixties.
Since 1970, most of Kramer’s work for the magazine has covered various aspects of European culture, politics, and social history. Many of these articles have been collected in three books. “Unsettling Europe” was published in 1981; “Europeans,” published in 1988, won the Prix Européen de l’Essai Charles Veillon and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction; and in October, 1996, Random House published “The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany.”
A notable exception to Kramer’s European reporting was her 1977 profile of the pseudonymous Texan, Henry Blanton, which was later published as a book, “The Last Cowboy” (1978), and which won the American Book Award for nonfiction. Also, her article on multiculturalism and political correctness, “Whose Art Is It?,” won the National Magazine Award (1993) for feature writing and was published as a book in 1994.
Jane Kramer received her B.A. from Vassar College in 1959 and her M.A. in English from Columbia University in 1961. She lives in Paris, New York, and Umbria, Italy with her husband, the archeologist Vincent Crapanzano. They have a daughter, Aleksandra.
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