Sam Tanenhaus
Sam Tanenhaus | |
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| Born | October 31, 1955 |
| Education | Grinnell College (BA) Yale University (MA) |
| Occupation | Writer |
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Sam Tanenhaus (born October 31, 1955) is an American historian, biographer, and journalist. He currently is a writer for Prospect.[1]
Early years
[edit]Tanenhaus received his B.A. in English from Grinnell College in 1977 and a M.A. in English Literature from Yale University in 1978. His siblings include psycholinguist Michael Tanenhaus, filmmaker Beth Tanenhaus Winsten, and legal historian David S. Tanenhaus.[citation needed]
Career
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Tanenhaus was an assistant editor at The New York Times from 1997 to 1999, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair from 1999 until 2004. From April 2004[2] to April 2013 he served as the editor of The New York Times Book Review.[3][4][5] He has written many featured articles for that publication, including a 10-year retrospective on the politics of radical centrism.[6] His 1997 biography of Whittaker Chambers won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for both the National Book Award for Nonfiction[7] and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.[8] Since 2019, Tanenhaus has been a visiting professor at St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto, where he teaches courses on American politics and media studies.[9]
Personal life
[edit]Tanenhaus formerly lived in Tarrytown, New York with his wife.[10] Currently, he resides in Essex, Connecticut.[11]
Bibliography
[edit]- Tanenhaus, Sam (1984). Literature Unbound: A Guide for the Common Reader. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-33297-0.
- —— (July 1, 1988). Louis Armstrong: Musician. Black Americans of Achievement. New York: Chelsea House Publications. ISBN 0-7910-0221-7. OCLC 608888948.
- —— (1995). Old Greenwich Village: An Architectural Portrait. Gross, Steve (Photographer). New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-14405-3. OCLC 315861193.
- —— (February 18, 1997). Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. Modern Library. ISBN 0394585593. OCLC 1520244898.
- —— (September 1, 2009). The Death of Conservatism. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6884-5. OCLC 316030305.
- —— (June 3, 2025). Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America (First hardcover ed.). New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0375502347. OCLC 1444155811.
References
[edit]- ^ About Us
- ^ "NYT memo on Schacter's new position". poynter.org. March 12, 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-03-13. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
- ^ "Pamela Paul is named New York Times Book Review editor". jimromenesko.com. April 9, 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
- ^ "Sam Tanenhaus". City University of New York. Archived from the original on 2008-06-08.
- ^ Neyfakh, Leon (March 11, 2009). "Random House Signs Up a Little Sam Tanenhaus Book on the Future of Conservatism". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on March 14, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
- ^ Tanenhaus, Sam (14 April 2010). "The Radical Center: The History of an Idea". The New York Times Book Review.
- ^ "National Book Awards – 1997". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
- ^ "Biography or Autobiography". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
- ^ "St. Michael's Welcomes Sam Tanenhaus as Visiting Professor". University of St. Michael's College. Retrieved 2022-02-05.
- ^ Noah Charney (August 8, 2012). "Inside the NYT Book Review: 'How I Write' Interviews Sam Tanenhaus". The Daily Beast. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
- ^ "Former New York Times Book Review editor to speak in Essex".
External links
[edit]- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Will the Tea Get Cold? (March 8, 2012 New York Review of Books issue)
- Interview with Sam Tanenhaus from Oxford American
- Sam Tanenhaus's review of Freedom by Jonathan Franzen in The New York Times Book Review
- Sam Tanenhaus's review of Going Rogue by Sarah Palin in The New Yorker
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