David Denby

male
Columbia University, George Bush, Jr., Western canon, Core Curriculum, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Great Books…new york magazine, thenewyorker, from New York
David Denby is an American film critic who writes for "The New Yorker". At present (2007) he shares this role with Anthony Lane. Denby previously...
Hendrik Hertzberg

Hendrik Hertzberg

male, 66 years old (Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
columnist, writer, Magazine editor, Harvard University, the new republic, U.S. NAVY…The Beatles, thenewyorker, the grateful dead, The New Yorker Magazine employee, The New Yorker executive
Hendrik Hertzberg (b. 1943) is an American journalist, best known as the principal (and left-leaning) political commentator for "The New Yorker"...
George Packer

George Packer

male, 49 years old
Yale University alumni, Stanford University, peace corps, Calhoun College, 2003 invasion of Iraq, Togo…The Assassins' Gate America in Iraq, The New York Times, thenewyorker, the nation
George Packer (born August 13, 1960) is an American journalist and novelist. His parents, Nancy Packer and Herbert Packer, were both academics at...

Sasha Frere-Jones

male, 42 years old
music critic, American, American music journalist, The Wire writer, thenewyorker, Sasha (Alexander) Frere-Jones
Sasha (Alexander) Frere-Jones (b. 1967) is an American music critic based in New York City. He is on the staff of The New Yorker, where he serves...
Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon

male, 45 years old
from Chicago, novelist, English, macarthur foundation, From Sarajevo, University of Sarajevo…from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, The Paris Review, The Question of Bruno, thenewyorker
Aleksandar Hemon (born 1964) is a Bosnian fiction writer living in the United States. Hemon was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, to a father of...
Bernard Malamud

Bernard Malamud

male, deceased (1986) (New York, United States)
Oregon State University faculty, Jewish, City University of New York, The Tenants, novelist, yiddish…The Assistant, The Fixer, The Natural, thenewyorker, born in Brooklyn, New York
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 - March 18, 1986) was an American writer.
Roger Angell

Roger Angell

male, 89 years old
thenewyorker, Magazine editor, baseball, American, sportswriter
Roger Angell (born September 19, 1920), is an important figure in the world of American letters, having spent the vast majority of his career as a...
Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande

male, 44 years old (Waban, Massachusetts, United States)
Pediatrician, Stanford University, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Stanford University alumni, urology, Paediatrician…thenewyorker, new england journal of medicine
Atul Gawande (b. 1965 in Brooklyn, NY) is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, an assistant...
Seymour Hersh

Seymour Hersh

male, 72 years old
Worth Bingham Prize recipient, war correspondent, New York Times, Jewish person, American, author…thenewyorker
Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh (born April 8, 1937 Chicago) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in...
James Wolcott

James Wolcott

male, 57 years old
from New York City, American, New York writer, blog, Liberal weblogs, Frostburg State University alumni…New York Review of Books, The Catsitters, new york magazine, thenewyorker, the village voice
James Wolcott (born 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American journalist, known for his critique of contemporary media. Wolcott is the cultural...