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David Remnick
writer, editor, The New Yorker
David Remnick has been the editor of *The New Yorker*since 1998. A staff writer for the magazine from 1992 to 1998, he was previously *The Washington Post*’s correspondent in the Soviet Union. The author of several books, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for his 1994 book *Lenin’s Tomb*. He lives in New York with his wife and children.