Adam Gopnik

Writer

Adam Gopnik has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1986. In 2000, he began writing New York Journal column, about culture and daily life in 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 Paris to the Moon (2008), The King in the Window (2006), and Through the Children’s Gate (2008).

In 1998, Gopnik received the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting for his Paris Journal column. Before he came to The New Yorker he was an editor at Alfred A Knopf and a fiction editor at GQ. 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 a book with the same title.