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Adam Gopnik


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in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States
August 24, 1956

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Adam Gopnik is an American writer and essayist, renowned for his extensive contributions to The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1986. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Montreal, he earned a BA in art history from McGill University and pursued graduate work at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts. Gopnik began his career as the magazine’s art critic before becoming its Paris correspondent in 1995. His dispatches from France were later collected in Paris to the Moon (2000), a bestseller that marked his emergence as a major voice in literary nonfiction.
He is the author of numerous books exploring topics from parenting and urban life to liberalism and food culture, including Through the Children's Gate, The Table Comes First, Ange
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Average rating: 3.83 · 36,863 ratings · 4,506 reviews · 113 distinct worksSimilar authors
Paris to the Moon

3.75 avg rating — 15,382 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
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Through the Children's Gate...

3.76 avg rating — 1,104 ratings — published 2006 — 21 editions
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A Thousand Small Sanities: ...

3.86 avg rating — 1,030 ratings — published 2019 — 16 editions
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The Table Comes First: Fami...

3.37 avg rating — 1,153 ratings — published 2011 — 22 editions
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Angels and Ages: A Short Bo...

3.61 avg rating — 1,005 ratings — published 2009 — 23 editions
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The King in the Window

3.61 avg rating — 944 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions
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Winter: Five Windows on the...

3.78 avg rating — 572 ratings — published 2011 — 19 editions
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The Real Work: On the Myste...

3.13 avg rating — 579 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions
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At the Strangers' Gate: Arr...

3.42 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 2017 — 15 editions
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“Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs.”
Adam Gopnik

“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”
Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon

“Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.”
Adam Gopnik

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