Remnick has contributed to The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and The New Republic. Remnick has edited many anthologies of New Yorker pieces, including “ Life Stories,” “ Wonderful Town,” “ The New Gilded Age,” “ Fierce Pajamas,” “ Secret Ingredients,” and “ Disquiet, Please!” Remnick has written six books: “Lenin’s Tomb,” “ Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia,” “ King of the World” (a biography of Muhammad Ali), “ The Bridge” (a biography of Barack Obama), and “ The Devil Problem” and “ Reporting,” which are collections of some of his pieces from the magazine. Remnick’s personal honors include Advertising Age’s Editor of the Year, in 20, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 2016. In 2016, it became the first magazine to receive a Pulitzer Prize for its writing, and now has won six, including the gold medal for public service.
It has won fifty-three National Magazine Awards, including multiple citations for general excellence, and has been named a finalist a hundred and ninety-two times, more than any other publication. Under Remnick’s leadership, The New Yorker has become the country’s most honored magazine. In 1988, he started a four-year tenure as a Washington Post Moscow correspondent, an experience that formed the basis of his 1993 book on the former Soviet Union, “ Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire.” In 1994, “Lenin’s Tomb” received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism.
Remnick began his reporting career as a staff writer at the Washington Post in 1982, where he covered stories for the Metro, Sports, and Style sections. He has written many pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and Europe, and Profiles of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Katharine Graham, Mike Tyson, Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth, and Benjamin Netanyahu. David Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992.
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