Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956) is an American writer and a long-serving staff writer at *The New Yorker*. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Montreal, he studied art history at McGill University and earned an M.A. from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. His work joins art criticism, reported writing, essays, fiction, humor, memoir, and book reviewing.
Gopnik has contributed to The New Yorker since 1986. He served as the magazine’s art critic from 1987 to 1995, was its Paris correspondent from 1995 to 2000, and subsequently wrote a journal of New York life. His writing has also extended to children’s fiction, lectures, and musical theatre. The catalog title Paris to the Moon draws on the years in which he and his family lived in Paris, combining observations of the city with family life and everyday experience. Other books include The King in the Window, Winter: Five Windows on the Season, and The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery.
His journalism has received three National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. France named him Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2013 and Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur in 2021. McGill University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters in 2013. He continues to publish in The New Yorker and to appear in public lectures and conversations.
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