Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956) is an American writer and essayist. He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker, to which he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir, and criticism since 1986.

Adam Gopnik
Gopnik in 2014
Born (1956-08-24) August 24, 1956
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • essayist
  • commentator
EducationMcGill University (BA)
Period1986–present
Website
adamgopnik.com

He 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. In 2020, his essay "The Driver's Seat" was cited as the most-assigned piece of contemporary nonfiction in the English-language syllabus.

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