Sam Tanenhaus (born October 31, 1955) is an American historian, biographer, and journalist. He currently is a writer for Prospect.[1]
Sam Tanenhaus | |
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| Born | October 31, 1955 |
| Education | B.A., Grinnell College (1977) M.A., Yale University (1978) |
| Occupation | Writer |
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Early years
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
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
Tanenhaus formerly lived in Tarrytown, New York with his wife.[10] Currently, he resides in Essex, Connecticut.[11]
Bibliography
- Tanenhaus, Sam (1986). Literature Unbound. Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-33297-0.
- Tanenhaus, Sam (1988). Louis Armstrong. Black Americans of Achievement. Chelsea House Publications. ISBN 0-7910-0221-7.
- Tanenhaus, Sam (1995). Old Greenwich Village: An Architectural Portrait. Gross, Steve (Photographer). Wiley, John & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-14405-3.
- Tanenhaus, Sam (1997). Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. Modern Library. ISBN 0-375-75145-9.
- Tanenhaus, Sam (2009). The Death of Conservatism. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6884-5.
References
External links
- 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