Adam Gopnik has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1986. His awards include the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism, the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting, and the Canadian National Magazine Award Gold Medal for arts writing. His work has been anthologized many times, in “Best American Essays”, “Best American Travel Writing,” “Best American Sports Writing,” and elsewhere. He is the author of nine books of fiction and non-fiction, including Paris to the Moon, The King in the Window, and A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism. He has also worked as a lyricist and libretto writer for several musical theatre projects, including TABLE, which was produced at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre in 2016.
