David Remnick
David Remnick (born October 29, 1958 in Hackensack , New Jersey ) is an American journalist, author and newspaper editor.
Life
He grew up, he said, in a liberal Jewish household with "many books" and graduated from Princeton in 1981 . He worked for the Washington Post as a reporter and correspondent in Moscow .
In 1994 Remnick won the Pulitzer Prize for his work Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire . His book King of the World , a biography of the boxer Muhammad Ali , also received a lot of attention .
Remnick has been editor-in-chief of the New Yorker since 1998 . In this role he edited selected articles in the New Yorker , whereupon he was voted “Editor of the Year” in 1999 by Advertising Age magazine . In 2014 he received an honorary doctorate from Columbia University . In 2006 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 2008 to the American Philosophical Society and in 2016 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Works
- King of the World. The rise of Cassius Clay or: The birth of Muhammad Ali , Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2000 ISBN 3-8270-0339-3
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The Bridge of Life: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama , Alfred Knopf, New York 2010 ISBN 978-1-4000-4360-6
- Barack Obama. Life and Rise , German by Friedrich Griese et al., Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-8270-0893-0
- Plato. Power - A portrait of power , with texts by Platon and David Remnick, photos by Platon Antoniou , translated by Walter Ahlers, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-8296-0532-8 .
- About Bruce Springsteen , translated from the English by Eike Schönfeld , Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8270-1168-8
- essay
- The Pioneers of Perestroika: Back to the Intellectual Roots of Soviet Reforms , in: Alexander Dallin / Gail W. Lapidus (eds.): The Soviet System. From Crisis to Collapse, Westview Press, Boulder / San Francisco / Oxford 2005 ISBN 0-8133-1876-9
- Presidential Election 2016 - An American Tragedy , in: The New Yorker, November 9, 2016.
Literature on David Remnick
- Karin Steiberger, Mein Land, "The New Yorker" journalist David Remnick , in Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 13, 2017, p. 3,
Web links
- Literature by and about David Remnick in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by David Remnick at perlentaucher.de
- Interview in The Guardian
- David Remnick at The New Yorker
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member History: David Remnick. American Philosophical Society, accessed February 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 20, 2019 .
- ↑ David Remnick, Presidential Election 2016 - An American Tragedy , in: The New Yorker, November 9, 2016
- ↑ Karin Steiberger, Mein Land, "The New Yorker" journalist David Remnick , in: SZ, April 13, 2017, p. 3, available online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Remnick, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist, author and newspaper editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hackensack , New Jersey |