Renata Adler was born on October 19,1937 and is an American author, journalist, and film critic.
19 Facts About Renata Adler
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Renata Adler's family had fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and moved to the US in 1939.
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Renata Adler grew up in Danbury, Connecticut and attended Bryn Mawr College, where she studied philosophy under Jose Ferrater Mora and German literature.
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Renata Adler then pursued her interest in philosophy, linguistics and structuralism at the Sorbonne under the tutelage of Jean Wahl and Claude Levi-Strauss, graduating in 1961.
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Renata Adler went on to receive a JD from Yale Law School in 1979.
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In 1962, Renata Adler became a staff writer for The New Yorker, working under William Shawn.
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Renata Adler was not happy with the Timess deadlines and in February 1969, she was replaced by Vincent Canby and returned to The New Yorker.
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Renata Adler's reporting and essays for The New Yorker on politics, war, and civil rights were reprinted in Toward a Radical Middle.
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In 1973, John Doar, whom Renata Adler had met while covering the Selma March, approached her with an offer to write speeches for Peter Rodino, the chairman of the Nixon impeachment inquiry of the House Judiciary Committee.
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Renata Adler accepted, and would later publish Pitch Dark, which fictionalized an affair she had with Burke Marshall, a fellow committee member.
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Renata Adler's motivations were considered to be either wanting to "uphold The New Yorker's usually high standards" or stemming from "personal differences with Kael".
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In 1998, Renata Adler wrote a long essay about the Starr Report for Vanity Fair magazine.
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The Starr Report led to Clinton's impeachment; Renata Adler argued that it contained evidence of Starr's abuse of power in his pursuit of Clinton.
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Renata Adler taught journalism and English literature for three years at Boston University, serving in the University Professors Program.
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In 1973, Renata Adler received a Guggenheim Fellowship for General Nonfiction.
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In 2021, Renata Adler received an honorary doctorate from Oberlin College.
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In 2004, Renata Adler served as a media fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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Renata Adler was selected as the 2016 Writer-in-Residence for the International Literature Festival held at Utrecht University.
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Renata Adler has one son, Stephen, whom she adopted as an infant in 1986.