Timothy Noah grew up in New Rochelle, New York, and Beverly Hills, California.
10 Facts About Timothy Noah
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Timothy Noah's father was Jewish, and his mother was Protestant; he describes himself as an atheist.
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Timothy Noah is a graduate of Harvard College, where he obtained a degree in English in 1980, and where he was on the prose board of the Harvard Advocate.
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Timothy Noah is a contributing editor to The Washington Monthly, where he was an editor, and where he returned for six weeks as guest web editor in the summer of 2021.
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Timothy Noah has been a frequent broadcast commentator on CBS News' Sunday Morning and NPR's former program, Day To Day.
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On February 24,2007, Timothy Noah wrote an article for Slate entitled "Evicted from Wikipedia", which critiques the online encyclopedia's notability policy as an illustration of our society's "love affair with invidious distinction," and cited Thorstein Veblen's 1899 critique of consumerism, The Theory of the Leisure Class to this effect.
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In 2010, Timothy Noah was a National Magazine Award finalist in the online news reporting category for his Slate coverage of the health care reform bill.
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The Great Divergence grew out of a ten-part series that Timothy Noah published in Slate in September 2010.
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On March 22,2013, Timothy Noah announced over Twitter that he'd been fired by The New Republic.
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In September 2018 Timothy Noah married Sarah McNamer, a medievalist and professor of English at Georgetown University.