19 Facts About Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik was born on August 24,1956 and is an American writer and essayist, who was raised in Montreal, Canada.

Adam Gopnik is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker, to which he has contributed nonfiction, fiction, memoir, and criticism since 1986.

Adam Gopnik is the author of nine books, including Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate, The King in the Window, and A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism.

Adam Gopnik studied at Dawson College and then at McGill University, earning a BA in art history.

Adam Gopnik completed graduate work at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts.

Adam Gopnik later wrote an article for Search Magazine on the connection between religion and art and the compatibility of Christianity and Darwinism.

Adam Gopnik has written for four New Yorker editors: William Shawn, Robert Gottlieb, Tina Brown, and David Remnick.

Adam Gopnik has contributed fiction, humor, book reviews, profiles, and internationally reported pieces to the magazine.

Adam Gopnik worked in this position from 1987 to 1995, after which he became the magazine's Paris correspondent.

Adam Gopnik continues to contribute to The New Yorker as a staff writer.

In 2011, Adam 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.

In 2019, Adam Gopnik authored A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, a nonfiction book published by Basic Books.

Adam Gopnik began working on musical projects in 2015, as a lyricist and libretto writer.

Adam Gopnik wrote the libretto for Nico Muhly's oratorio Sentences, which premiered in London at the Barbican Centre in June 2015.

Adam Gopnik participates as a member of the jury for the New York International Children's Film Festival.

In 2015 Adam Gopnik wrote and presented Lighting Up New York, a cultural journey through the recent history of New York for Britain's BBC Four and is a regular contributor to the BBC Radio 4 weekly talk series A Point of View.

Adam Gopnik taught at the annual Iceland Writers Retreat in Reykjavik, Iceland, in spring 2015.

In 2016, Adam Gopnik began a free lecture series at the Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein Atrium, titled The History of the World in 100 Performances.

Adam Gopnik appears as himself in the 2022 film Tar, interviewing the film's lead, Lydia Tar, about her views on conducting at The New Yorker Festival.