Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik ( born August 24, 1956 in Philadelphia ) is a kanadischstämmiger 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, where his BA and then studied at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. 1986 The New Yorker published the first piece of Gopnik.

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

Gopnik lives with his wife, Martha Parker, and two children in New York. Among his five siblings heard the psychology professor Alison Gopnik.

Works

  • Paris to the Moon (2000), ISBN 0-375-75823-2. excerpt
  • (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. excerpt
  • 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
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