Nicholas Lemann

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Nicholas Lemann autographing a book at the 2006 Texas Book Festival.

Nicholas Berthelot Lemann is dean and Henry R. Luce professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. ^[1]

1 Biography
2 Selected publications
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Lemann is from New Orleans and he graduated from Harvard University in 1976, but has never attended a school of journalism. ^[2] He is a journalist, editor, and author of several books on 20th century United States history. He has also been:

Managing editor of the Washington Monthly
associate editor and executive editor of the Texas Monthly
a national staff reporter for The Washington Post
a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly
a staff writer for The New Yorker
President of the Harvard Crimson

Lemann has been married twice. His first wife was Dominique Alice Browning, who later became an editor in chief of House & Garden; they married on 20 May 1983, have two sons, Alexander and Theodore, and later divorced. His second wife is Judith Anne Shulevitz, who was a columnist for Slate and The New York Times Book Review; married on 7 November 1999, they have a son and a daughter.^[3]His sister is Nancy Lemann, a novelist.

[edit] Selected publications

New Yorker articles:
- September 2005 commentary on Hurricane Katrina
- August 2006 article on Citizen journalism, titled, Amateur Hour: Journalism Without Journalists
- August 2007 commentary titled Rovian Ways on Karl Rove's resignation and legacy
The Big Test (1999) ISBN 978-0374527518 (The story of how standardized tests (such as the SAT) became very important in the United States)
- "None of the Above" Review, by Andrew Sullivan, The New York Times, Oct. 24, 1999.
- "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; What's Wrong With the SAT and Its Elite Progeny" Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times, Oct. 4, 1999
The Promised Land : The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991) ISBN 978-0394269672 (On the migration of millions of black people from the South to the North in the 1940s and 1950s)
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (2006) ISBN 978-0374248550 (The story of Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War)
- "A Less Perfect Union Review by Sean Willentz, in the New York Times Sept. 10, 2006
- First chapter of book, on the NY Times site.

[edit] References

^ "Columbia Names Dean for its Journalism School," by Karen W. Arenson, The New York Times, April 16, 2003 [1]
^ "Driven by What He Wishes He'd Learned" by Karen W. Arenson. The New York Times, May 14,2003 [2]
^ Harvard Magazine, [3].