David Remnick

David Remnick ( born October 29, 1958 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is an American journalist, author and newspaper editor.

He grew up, as he said, in a liberal Jewish household with " many books " and made ​​in 1981 in Princeton its conclusion. For the Washington Post, he worked as a reporter and correspondent in Moscow font.

1994 Remnick won the Pulitzer Prize for his work Lenin 's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. Also, much attention was paid to his book King of the World, a biography of boxer Muhammad Ali.

Since 1998, Remnick is the editor of the New Yorker. In this role, he edited selected item of the New York, after which he was elected in 1999 by the trade magazine Advertising Age to the " Editor of the Year".

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
• The Bridge of Life: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, Alfred Knopf, New York 2010 ISBN 9781400043606 Barack Obama. Life and career, German by Friedrich Griese et al., Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-8270-0893-0

• 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