Background
Philip Gourevitch was born in 1961 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, to Victor and Jacqueline Gourevitch.
The Arts Quad on Cornell's main campus with McGraw Tower in the background
Philip Gourevitch was born in 1961 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, to Victor and Jacqueline Gourevitch.
Gourevitch attended Cornell University and graduated in 1986. In 1992, he received a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from the Writing Program at Columbia University.
Gourevitch worked for The Forward from 1991 to 1993, first as New York bureau chief and then as Cultural Editor. He left to pursue a career as a freelance writer, publishing articles in numerous magazines, including Granta, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, and The New York Review of Books, before joining The New Yorker. He has also written for many other magazines and newspapers. In 2004, Gourevitch was assigned to cover the 2004 U.S. presidential election for The New Yorker. He was appointed the editor of The Paris Review in March 2005 and held that position through March 2010. He is also the editor of The Paris Review Interviews, Volumes I-IV. The first volume, for which he wrote the introduction, was published in 2006.
Gourevitch is married to The New Yorker writer Larissa MacFarquhar.