Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik, 2014

Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956 in Philadelphia ) is an American writer, essayist and commentator .

Life

Gopnik grew up in Montreal , where his parents, Irwin and Myrna Gopnik taught as professors at McGill University . Adam Gopnik did his Bachelor of Arts there and then studied at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. In 1986, The New Yorker published Gopnik's first piece.

As a studied art historian, Gopnik curated the exhibition High / Low at the Museum of Modern Art together with his friend Kirk Varnedoe in 1990 . In 1995 The New Yorker sent him to Paris; his accounts of life there appeared on his return in 2000, collected by Random House .

Gopnik lives in New York with his wife, Martha Parker, and two children. His five siblings include psychology professor Alison Gopnik and art critic Blake Gopnik.

Works

• Paris to the Moon (2000), ISBN 0-375-75823-2 . abstract
• (Ed.) Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004), ISBN 1-931082-56-1 .
• The King in the Window (2005)
• Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York (2006), ISBN 978-1-4000-4181-7 . abstract
• Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (2009), ISBN 978-0-307-27078-8 .
• The Steps Across the Water (2010), ISBN 978-1-4231-1213-6 .
• Winter: Five Windows on the Season (2011), ISBN 978-0-88784-975-6 .
• The Table Comes First: France, Family, and the Meaning of Food (2011), ISBN 978-0-307-59345-0 .
• A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism (2019), ISBN 978-1-5416-9935-9 .

Web links

• Homepage of Adam Gopnik
• Interview with Adam Gopnik in Identity Theory 2000
• Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Really Change the Way We Think?. In: The New Yorker May 2020

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biography - Adam Gopnik