- David Denby
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 reviewed films for New York magazine. In his 1986 essay, "Can The Movies Be Saved?", Denby made an eerily prescient comment regarding the current president of the United States. Discussing the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, he remarked that Ferris was like George Bush, Jr., … - Hendrik Hertzberg
Hendrik Hertzberg (b. 1943) is an American journalist, best known as the principal (and left-leaning) political commentator for "The New Yorker" magazine. He has also been a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and editor of "The New Republic", and is the author of "Politics: Observations & Arguments". The son of Sidney Hertzberg, a journalist and political activist, and Hazel Whitman Hertzberg, … - George Packer
George Packer (born August 13, 1960) is an American journalist and novelist. His parents, Nancy Packer and Herbert Packer, were both academics at Stanford University; his maternal grandfather was George Huddleston, a congressman from Alabama. Packer graduated from Calhoun College, Yale University in 1982, and served in the Peace Corps in Togo. His essays and articles have appeared in "The Nation", "Harper's", "The New York Times", … - Sasha 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 as pop music critic. He is a former member of the band Ui. He maintains a blog, S/FJ. Sasha's brother, Tobias Frere-Jones, is a prominent type designer, also based in New York. - Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon (born 1964) is a Bosnian fiction writer living in the United States. Hemon was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, to a father of Ukrainian descent and Serbian mother. Hemon's great-grandfather, Teodor Hemon, came to Bosnia from Western Ukraine prior to World War I, when both countries were a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hemon graduated from the University of Sarajevo with a degree in literature in 1990. - Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 - March 18, 1986) was an American writer. - Roger Angell
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 fiction editor and regular contributor at "The New Yorker". He has written many memorable essays on baseball as well as numerous fiction, non-fiction and criticism pieces. Angell has been called "the best baseball writer ever" for his stylish, intelligent prose. - Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande (b. 1965 in Brooklyn, NY) is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker magazine and the online magazine "Slate." He has also written for "New England Journal of Medicine". - Seymour Hersh
Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh (born April 8, 1937 Chicago) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, DC. He is a regular contributor to "The New Yorker" magazine on military and security matters. His work first gained worldwide recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. - James Wolcott
James Wolcott (born 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American journalist, known for his critique of contemporary media. Wolcott is the cultural critic for "Vanity Fair" and contributes to "The New Yorker". He also writes a blog. Born in the suburbs of Baltimore, Wolcott attended Maryland's Frostburg State College for two years. From there, he moved to New York City to work at "The Village Voice". - David Remnick
David Remnick (born October 29, 1958 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is an American journalist, writer, and magazine editor. As a reporter for the "Washington Post", he also served as the paper's Moscow correspondent. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire". He has been editor of "The New Yorker" magazine since 1998. He has edited several collections of writings from "The New Yorker" and in 1999, … - Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell (born September 1, 1963) is a United Kingdom-born, Canadian-raised journalist now based in New York City who has been a staff writer for "The New Yorker" since 1996. He is known as the author of the books "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" (2000) and "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" (2005). - John Cassidy
John Cassidy is an American business journalist. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker having previously been an editor at the The Sunday Times of London and a deputy editor at the New York Post. He is the author of "Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era" which examines the dot-com bubble. - Alex Ross
Alex Ross (b. 1968) has been the music critic of "The New Yorker" magazine since 1996. His work has also appeared in "The New Republic", "Slate", the "London Review of Books", "Lingua Franca", and "Feed". From 1992 to 1996 he was a music critic at the "New York Times". He has been featured in "Best American Essays", "Da Capo Best Music Writing", and "Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader". - Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman (born 1969) is an American writer and magazine editor. Greenman was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Miami, Florida. He attended Miami Palmetto High School and then Yale University where he worked on the Yale Herald. After Yale, he worked as a film critic at New Times newspaper in Miami and then moved to New York City to work as a freelance writer and editor. His journalism has appeared in such magazines as "Rolling Stone", "Mother Jones", … - Anthony Lane
Anthony Lane (born 1962) has been a film reviewer on "The New Yorker" magazine since 1993. His writing has been frequently praised for its style and wit. Lane is married to the British tabloid columnist and chick-lit writer Allison Pearson. They live in Cambridge, England and have two young children. - John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania) is an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ("Rabbit, Run"; "Rabbit Redux"; "Rabbit Is Rich"; "Rabbit At Rest"; and "Rabbit Remembered"). "Rabbit is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest" both won Pulitzer Prizes for Updike. Describing his subject as "the American small town, … - James Surowiecki
James Michael Surowiecki is an American journalist. He is staff writer at "The New Yorker", where he writes a regular column on business and finance called "The Financial Page". Surowiecki's writing has appeared in a wide range of publications, including "The New York Times", the "Wall Street Journal", "Artforum", "Wired", and "Slate". - Jane Mayer
Jane Mayer (born 1955 in New York City) is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for "The New Yorker" since 1995. In recent years, she has written extensive articles for that publication on Dick Cheney, the bin Laden family, and the US government's controversial policy of extraordinary rendition. - Tina Brown
Tina Brown, Lady Evans (born Christina Hambley Brown on November 21, 1953, in Maidenhead, England) is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist and talk-show host. Born a British citizen, she has since taken United States citizenship. She rose to prominence in the American media industry as the editor of the magazines "Vanity Fair" from 1984 to 1992 and of "The New Yorker" from 1992 to 1998. - Graydon Carter
Edward Graydon Carter (born 14 July 1949) is a Canadian-born American journalist and author. He is editor of "Vanity Fair". He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen, the satirical monthly magazine "Spy" in 1986. Carter began his career at "Time" as a writer-trainee where he met Andersen. After "Spy" closed down, Carter would become editor at the "New York Observer" before being invited to "Vanity Fair" to take over from Tina Brown, … - Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik, (born August 24, 1956) a writer, essayist and commentator, is primarily known for his work published by "The New Yorker", for which he has written since 1986. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but was raised in Montreal, Quebec. His parents were professors at McGill University, from which Gopnik received a Bachelor of Arts degree. He lives in New York with his wife, Martha Parker, and two children Luke and Olivia. - Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert (b.1961) is a journalist and author best known for her book on global warming titled "Field Notes from a Catastrophe". Kolbert spent her early childhood in the Bronx, then her family relocated to Larchmont, New York, where she remained until 1979. After graduating high school, Kolbert spent four years studying literature at Yale University. In 1983, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Universitat-Hamburg, in Germany. - Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Mark Goldberg (born September, 1965) is an American journalist. He is a staff writer for "The New Yorker" and an author. Goldberg has written extensively on foreign affairs, with a focus on the Middle East and Africa. - Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914-May 12, 1999) was a Romanian-American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for "The New Yorker" magazine. - Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt (born October 14, 1949 in New York City) is an American feminist writer. - James Grover Thurber
James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio. His father was Charles Leander (later surnamed Lincoln), a minor politician. Mary Thurber , his mother, was a strong-minded woman and a practical joker, whom her son depicted in his autobiographical stories MY LIFE AND HARD TIMES (1933). Thurber's father, who had dreams of being an actor or lawyer, was said to have been the basis for the typical small, slight man of Thurber's stories. - James Fallows
James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and has worked for the magazine for more than 25 years. He has written for the magazine on a wide range of topics, including national security policy, American politics, the development and impact of technology, economic trends and patterns, and U.S. relations with the Middle East, Asia, and other parts of the world. - Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American author best known for his novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. - Philip Gourevitch
Philip Gourevitch is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work has appeared since 1995. His first book, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda -published in 1998-won a number of major prizes, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, in England, the Guardian First Book Award. - James Wood
James Wood (born 1965 in Durham, United Kingdom) is a literary critic and novelist. - Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 - September 3, 2001) was a Jewish-American film critic who wrote for "The New Yorker" magazine from 1968 to 1991. She was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused" movie reviews. She approached movies emotionally, with a strongly colloquial writing style. - Nicholas Lemann
Nicholas Lemann , now a staff writer for The New Yorker, was born in New Orleans 46 years ago to a lawyer father and a psychologist mother. After graduating from Harvard in 1976, he worked as a reporter and editor for The Washington Monthly and Texas Monthly and as a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly . - Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, screenwriter and a staff writer for "The New Yorker" magazine, and a current fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. He is a graduate of Tulane University, and for two years, taught at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Wright is the author of six books, but is best known for his 2006 book, "The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11". - Calvin Trillin
Calvin (Bud) Marshall Trillin (born in Kansas City, Missouri, December 5, 1935) is an American journalist, humorist, and novelist. He is best known for his humorous writings about food and eating, but he has also written much serious journalism, comic verse, and several books of fiction. Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University, … - Joan Acocella
Joan B. Acocella (nee Ross, born 1945) is an American journalist who is a dance critic for "The New Yorker". She has written several books on dance, literature, and psychology. Acocella received her B.A. in English in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Rutgers University in 1984 with a thesis on the Ballets Russes. - Ken Auletta
Ken Auletta is a U.S. media critic for "The New Yorker" from Brooklyn, New York, who has written over 10 books, several of which have become "New York Times" best-sellers. Auletta has written about media empires, the George W. Bush administration, and Microsoft. - Brendan Gill
Brendan Gill wrote for "The New Yorker" for more than 60 years. He also contributed film criticism for "Film Comment" and wrote a popular book about his time at the "New Yorker" magazine. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Gill was graduated in 1936 from Yale University, where he was a member of Skull & Bones. A champion of architectural preservation and other visual arts, he chaired the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and authored 15 books, … - Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson (born 1950) is an left-wing American journalist, Editor-at-Large of "The American Prospect". Meyerson is also political editor and columnist for the L.A. Weekly, the nation's largest metropolitan weekly, where he served as executive editor from 1989 through 2001. His articles on politics, labor, the economy, foreign policy, and American culture have also appeared in "The New Yorker", "The Atlantic", "The New Republic", … - Harold Ross
Harold Wallace Ross (November 6, 1892 - December 6, 1951) was an American journalist and founder of "The New Yorker" magazine, which he edited from the magazine's inception in 1925 to his death. Born in Aspen, Colorado to George and Ida (Martin) Ross, he was the son of an Irish immigrant and a schoolteacher. When he was eight, the family left Aspen because of the collapse in the price of silver, moving to Redcliff and Silverton, Colorado, then to Salt Lake City, …
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