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Adam Gopnik
American writer (born 1956)
Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956) is an American writer and essayist, who was raised in Montreal, Canada.[1] He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker, to which he has contributed nonfiction, fiction, memoir, and criticism since 1986.[2]
He is the author of nine books, including Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate, The King in the Window, and A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism. In 2020, his essay "The Driver's Seat" was cited as the most-assigned piece of contemporary nonfiction in the English-language syllabus.[3]
Early life and education
Gopnik was born to a Jewish family[4] in Philadelphia and raised in Montreal.
His family lived at Habitat 67. Both his parents were professors at McGill University; father Irwin was a professor of English literature and mother Myrna was a professor of linguistics.[5] During a storytelling