David Remnick was named editor of The New Yorker in July 1998. He had been a staff writer at the magazine since September 1992, and has written over a hundred pieces for the magazine. His subjects have included such people as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Shimon Peres, Ralph Ellison, Katharine Graham, Pope John Paul II, Michael Jordan, and Al Gore.
Remnick joined The New Yorker after 10 years at The Washington Post. He began his reporting career as a staff writer at the Post in 1982, where over the years he covered stories for the Metro, Sports, and Style sections. In 1988, he started a four-year tenure as a Washington Post Moscow correspondent, an experience that formed the basis of his 1993 book on the former Soviet Union, Lenin's Tomb. In April 1994, Lenin's Tomb received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism. He was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 1998, for his piece on Mike Tyson, “Kid Dynamite Blows Up.”
In February, 1997, Random House published Resurrection, Remnick’s book on the struggle to build a Russian state from the ruins of the Soviet empire, and the first book to cover the recent elections in Russia. A collection of his New Yorker pieces, The Devil Problem (and Other True Stories), was published in August 1997. His book King of the World, on Muhammad Ali, was published in the fall of 1998. Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker, a collection of his profiles from the magazine, was published by Knopf in May 2006. In addition, Remnick has edited four anthologies of New Yorker pieces, including Life Stories, Wonderful Town, The New Gilded Age, and Fierce Pajamas.
Remnick has contributed to The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and The New Republic. Remnick has been a Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and has taught at Columbia and Princeton Universities.
David Remnick received his B.A. from Princeton University. He resides in New York with his wife, Esther Fein, and their three children.
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