14 Facts About Renata Adler

Renata Adler was born on October 19,1938 and is an American author, journalist, and film critic.

Renata Adler's family had fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and moved to the US in 1939.

Renata Adler then pursued her interest in philosophy, linguistics and structuralism at the Sorbonne under the tutelage of Jean Wahl and Claude Levi-Strauss, and later received a JD from Yale Law School and an honorary doctorate of laws from Georgetown University.

In 1962, Renata Adler became a staff writer-reporter for The New Yorker.

Renata Adler was not happy with the Timess deadlines and in February 1969, she was replaced by Vincent Canby.

Renata Adler's reporting and essays for The New Yorker on politics, war, and civil rights were reprinted in Toward a Radical Middle.

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".

In 1998, Renata Adler wrote a long essay about the Starr Report for Vanity Fair magazine.

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.

Renata Adler taught for three years in both the University Professors Honors Program and the Journalism Department of Boston University.

Renata Adler held Trumbull and Branford Fellowships at Yale, and visiting fellowships at the Hoover Institute of Stanford University.

In 2021, Renata Adler received an honorary doctorate from Oberlin College.

In 2004, Renata Adler served as a media fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Renata Adler has one son, Stephen, whom she adopted as an infant in 1986.