David Remnick Biography

Fast Facts

• The New Yorker magazine has won thirty National Magazine Awards since he became editor
• Won a Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism for "Lenin's Tomb․"
• Graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Comparative Literature in 1981
• Started out as a night police reporter for the Washington Post in 1982 and became their Moscow correspondent in 1988
• Quote: "Language is the great human invention and to be a master of that, a real master, is to me an astonishing thing․"
• Became a staff writer for The New Yorker in 1992 and has since written more than 100 articles for the magazine
• Best known as a journalist and editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998
• Has written several books, including "Resurrection," "Lenin's Tomb," and "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama․"