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Adam Gopnik is an American writer, essayist, and commentator. He is best known for his work as a staff writer for The New Yorker, where he has written since 1986. He has also written several books, including Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate, and The Table Comes First.
Gopnik was born on August 24, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended McGill University in Montreal, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978. He then attended the University of Cambridge in England, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in 1981.
Gopnik began his career as a freelance writer in the early 1980s, writing for publications such as The New Republic and The New York Times Magazine. In 1986, he joined The New Yorker as a staff writer. He has since written hundreds of articles for the magazine, covering topics such as art, culture, and politics.
Gopnik has also written several books, including Paris to the Moon (2000), Through the Children's Gate (2006), and The Table Comes First (2011). He has won numerous awards for his writing, including the National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism in 1994 and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting in 1997.
As of 2021, Adam Gopnik's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.
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His wife is Martha Parker
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Olivia Gopnik, Luke Gopnik |
Adam Gopnik Net Worth
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In 2019, he authored A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, a nonfiction book published by Basic Books. In this book, Gopnik espouses a path of sensible, practical and moderate liberalism, navigating between the extreme left and extreme right in the United States.
Gopnik began working on musical projects in 2015, as a lyricist and libretto writer. With the composer David Shire he has written book and lyrics for the musical comedy Table, inspired by Gopnik's 2011 book; it was workshopped in 2015 at the Long Wharf Theatre under the direction of Gordon Edelstein, featuring Melissa Errico. For a 2017 revival at the Long Wharf Theatre, Table was retitled The Most Beautiful Room in New York. He wrote the libretto for Nico Muhly's oratorio Sentences, which premiered in London at the Barbican Centre in June 2015.
Other projects include collaborating on a one-woman show for Errico, Sing the Silence, which debuted in November 2015 at The Public Theater in New York, and included new songs co-written with David Shire, Scott Frankel, and Peter Mills. Future projects include a new musical with Scott Frankel.
He taught at the annual Iceland Writers Retreat in Reykjavík, Iceland, in spring 2015. In 2016, Gopnik began a free lecture series at the Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein Atrium, titled The History of the World in 100 Performances.
In 2011, Gopnik was chosen to deliver the 50th Massey Lectures, where he presented five lectures in five Canadian cities on the ideas expounded in his book Winter: Five Windows on the Season.
His book The Table Comes First (2011), is about food, cooking and restaurants.
A book on Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, called Angels and Ages, followed in January 2009. In 2010, Hyperion Books published his children's fantasy novel The Steps Across the Water which chronicles the adventures of a young girl, Rose, in the mystical city of U Nork.
In addition to Paris to the Moon, Random House published the author's reflections on life in New York, and particularly the comedy of parenting, Through the Children's Gate, in 2006. (As in the earlier memoir, much of the material had appeared previously in The New Yorker.) In 2005, Hyperion Books published his children's novel The King in the Window about Oliver, an American boy living in Paris, who is mistaken for a mystical king and stumbles upon an ancient battle waged between Window Wraiths and the malicious Master of Mirrors.
In 1995, The New Yorker dispatched him to Paris to write the "Paris Journals", in which he described life in that city. These essays were later collected and published by Random House in Paris to the Moon, after Gopnik returned to New York City in 2000. The book became a bestseller on The New York Times Best Seller list.
Gopnik studied art history and with his friend Kirk Varnedoe curated the 1990 High/Low show at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He later wrote an article for Search Magazine on the connection between religion and art and the compatibility of Christianity and Darwinism. He states in the article that the arts of human history are products of religious thought and that human conduct is not guaranteed by religion or secularism.
In 1986, he began his long association with The New Yorker with a piece that would show his future range, a consideration of connections among baseball, childhood, and Renaissance art. He has written for four New Yorker editors: William Shawn, Robert Gottlieb, Tina Brown, and David Remnick.
Gopnik has contributed fiction, humor, book reviews, profiles, and internationally reported pieces to the magazine. After writing his first piece for the magazine in 1986, Gopnik became the magazine's art critic. He worked in this position from 1987 to 1995, after which he became the magazine's Paris correspondent. After five years in the French capital, Gopnik returned to New York to write a journal on life in the city. Gopnik continues to contribute to The New Yorker as a staff writer. In recent years, he has written extensively about gun control and gun violence in the United States.
Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956) is an American writer and essayist. He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker—to which he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir and criticism since 1986 – and as the author of the essay collection Paris to the Moon, an account of five years that he, his wife Martha, and son Luke spent in the French capital.