He then graduated from Princeton University in 1981 with an A.B. summa cum laude in comparative literature; there he met writer John McPhee and helped found The Nassau Weekly, a weekly student newspaper.
He then graduated from Princeton University in 1981 with an A.B. summa cum laude in comparative literature; there he met writer John McPhee and helped found The Nassau Weekly, a weekly student newspaper.
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David J. Remnick was born on October 29, 1958, in Hackensack, New Jersey, United States, to a Jewish family. The son of Edward C. Remnick, a dentist, and Barbara (Seigel) Remnick, an art teacher. He was raised in Hillsdale, New Jersey, in a secular Jewish home with, as he has said, "a lot of books around". He was also childhood friends with comedian Bill Maher.
David Remnick attended Pascack Valley High School in Hillsdale. He then graduated from Princeton University in 1981 with an A.B. summa cum laude in comparative literature; there he met writer John McPhee and helped found The Nassau Weekly, a weekly student newspaper.
David Remnick wanted to write novels after college, but due to the illnesses of his parents, he needed to get a job. As he wanted to be a writer, Remnick chose a career in journalism, taking a job as a reporter at The Washington Post.
He began his reporting career at The Washington Post in 1982 shortly after his graduation from Princeton. His first assignment was to cover the United States Football League. After six years, in 1988, he became the newspaper's Moscow correspondent, which provided him with the material for his book "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire". Remnick worked at The Washington Post until 1991.
Then he became a staff writer at The New Yorker in September 1992. In July 1998, Remnick became editor, succeeding Tina Brown.
Besides, Remnick promoted Hendrik Hertzberg, a former Jimmy Carter speechwriter and former editor of The New Republic, to write the lead pieces in "Talk of the Town", the magazine's opening section.
In 2000, Remnick served as editor of "Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker" and, with Susan Choi, edited "Wonderful Town: New York Stories from the New Yorker". In 2003, Remnick wrote an editorial in the run up to the Iraq War stating that "a return to a hollow pursuit of containment will be the most dangerous option of all".
Moreover, in 2005, he earned $1 million for his work as the magazine's editor.
In May 2009, Remnick was featured in a long-form Twitter account of Dan Baum's career as a New Yorker staff writer. The tweets, written over the course of a week, described the difficult relationship between Baum and Remnick, his editor.
Remnick's biography of President Barack Obama "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama" was released on April 6, 2010. It features hundreds of interviews with friends, colleagues, and other witnesses to Obama's rise to the presidency of the United States. The book has been widely reviewed in journals.
David Remnick is also the host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, produced by WNYC and The New Yorker.
In addition, Remnick provided guest commentary and contributed to NBC coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia, including the opening ceremony and commentary for NBC News.
David Remnick was the recipient of Livingston award in 1991 and Helen Bernstein award from New York Public Library in 1994.
Remnick also won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire". His 1997 New Yorker article "Kid Dynamite Blows Up", about boxer Mike Tyson, was nominated for a National Magazine Award.
Besides, he was named Editor of the Year by Advertising Age in 2000.
Remnick was born to a Jewish family and married his wife in a Jewish ceremony at the Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan.
Quotations: "I love indulging the passion for filling your bucket - in other words, reporting - learning something new, and then figuring out how to make a story of it, so it is not just a leaden ball of quotations but something that the reader can see and hear and that may bring the reader to a remote place in a way that some of the faster forms of journalism can't."
Remnick was a member of the University Press Club at Princeton University. He was also a visiting fellow of Council on Foreign Relations in New York City between 1992 and 1994.
Remnick is fluent in Russian.
Quotes from others about the person
John McPhee: "Remnick is an editor with extremely broad interests and a sense of what a piece of writing is about."
Tatyana Tolstaya: "Remnick is devoid of cultural racism. He doesn’t make idiotic generalizations, he doesn’t attribute implausible intentions and motivations to his subjects, he doesn’t lie, he doesn’t confuse; nor does he assume the pose of an aristocrat, who, wearied by the people’s foolishness, extends the local peasant two limp fingers from his lace cuffs. He doesn’t try to rise above his characters or above his readers."
Jason Cowley: "Remnick is not a swaggering writer. He is present in his pieces, but never obtrusively; they are emphatically not about him, which is as it should be."
In 1987, Remnick married reporter Esther Fein in a Jewish ceremony at the Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan. Fein has worked as a reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post. The couple has three children, Alexander, Noah, and Natasha.
