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Author of the essay collection Paris to the Moon.
Friday - March 26th, 2010
Adam Gopnik is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker, to which he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir and criticism, and as the author of the essay collection Paris to the Moon, an account of the half-decade that he, wife Martha, and son Luke spent in the French capital from 1995 to 2000. Speaking with singular wit, eloquence and insight on modern life and culture, Adam has a marvelous talent for opening the heart and showing us who we are through our relation to place, with a touch that is light and a wisdom that is deep.
Gopnik's new book Angels & Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life embodies this gift for using historical biography to explore the way we live today by looking at the birth of the modern era through the lives of two extraordinary people born within hours of each other exactly 200 years ago this year.
Adam writes in another genre also, what he calls 'comic-personal essays,' funny and touching stories about how families live (especially his own) in the storied cities of Paris and New York. His previous book, Through the Children's Gate, is a meditation on hope, as his family, his city and his country live through and past the events of 9/ll.
A frequent guest on Charlie Rose, Gopnik has been honored with three National Magazine Awards for Essay and Criticism and a George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. His entry on the culture of the United States is featured in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Adam Gopnik was born on August 24, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but was raised in Montreal, Quebec. His parents served as professors at McGill University, from which Gopnik himself received his Bachelor of Arts degree. He lives in New York with his wife, Martha Parker, and two children, Luke and Olivia. His five siblings include Blake Gopnik, The Washington Post art critic, and Alison Gopnik, a leading child psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Berkeley (author of The Scientist in the Crib, UK title: How Babies Think).
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