Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik isa staff writer for The New Yorker, since 1986, and an author and essayist. His books include Paris to the Moon, The Table Comes First, and a memoir, At the Strangers Gate. Gopnik’s work has been anthologized in Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing, Best American Sports Writing, Best American Food Writing, and Best American Spiritual Writing. He has won the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism three times, as well as the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting and Canadian National Magazine Award Gold Medal for arts writing. In 2013, Gopnik was awarded France’s Chevalier medal of the Order of Arts and Letters.