Adam Gopnik (b.1956) is an American author, essayist, and commentator celebrated for his perceptive and articulate writing. He is most renowned as a staff writer for The New Yorker, where he has been contributing non-fiction, fiction, memoirs, and criticism since 1986.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Montreal, Gopnik studied at Dawson College and then at McGill University, earning a B.A. in art history. At McGill, he contributed to The McGill Daily. He completed graduate work at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
Gopnik has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1986, contributing essays, criticism, and profiles on a wide range of subjects, from art and food to Parisian life. Gopnik gained widespread acclaim with his book Paris to the Moon (2000,) a collection of essays chronicling his family’s five-year stay in Paris. He followed this with Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York (2006,) reflecting on his return to New York City and raising his children there.
Other notable works include The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food (2011,) which explores the cultural significance of food, and Winter: Five Windows on the Season (2011,) based on his CBC Massey Lectures. In At the Stranger’s Gate: Arrivals in New York (2017,) Gopnik provides a memoir of his early years in New York City.
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There is nothing in human life so important and urgent as raising the next generation, and yet it also feels as if we have very little control over the outcome.
—Adam Gopnik
To be a good reader doesn’t mean being a discriminating reader. It means being an omnivorous reader.
—Adam Gopnik
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