Nicholas Lemann autographing a book at the 2006 Texas Book Festival.

Nicholas Berthelot Lemann is dean and Henry R. Luce professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. ^[1]

Biography

Lemann is from New Orleans and he graduated from Harvard University in 1976, but has never attended a school of journalism. ^[2] He is a journalist, editor, and author of several books on 20th century United States history. He has also been:

• Managing editor of the Washington Monthly
• associate editor and executive editor of the Texas Monthly
• a national staff reporter for The Washington Post
• a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly
• a staff writer for The New Yorker
• President of the Harvard Crimson

Lemann has been married twice. His first wife was Dominique Alice Browning, who later became an editor in chief of House & Garden; they married on 20 May 1983, have two sons, Alexander and Theodore, and later divorced. His second wife is Judith Anne Shulevitz, who was a columnist for Slate and The New York Times Book Review; married on 7 November 1999, they have a son and a daughter.^[3]His sister is Nancy Lemann, a novelist.

Selected publications

• New Yorker articles:
  • September 2005 commentary on Hurricane Katrina
  • August 2006 article on Citizen journalism, titled, Amateur Hour: Journalism Without Journalists
  • August 2007 commentary titled Rovian Ways on Karl Rove's resignation and legacy
• The Big Test (1999) ISBN 978-0374527518 (The story of how standardized tests (such as the SAT) became very important in the United States)
  • "None of the Above" Review, by Andrew Sullivan, The New York Times, Oct. 24, 1999.
  • "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; What's Wrong With the SAT and Its Elite Progeny" Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times, Oct. 4, 1999
• The Promised Land : The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991) ISBN 978-0394269672 (On the migration of millions of black people from the South to the North in the 1940s and 1950s)
• Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (2006) ISBN 978-0374248550 (The story of Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War)
  • "A Less Perfect Union Review by Sean Willentz, in the New York Times Sept. 10, 2006
  • First chapter of book, on the NY Times site.

References

1. ^ "Columbia Names Dean for its Journalism School," by Karen W. Arenson, The New York Times, April 16, 2003 [1]
2. ^ "Driven by What He Wishes He'd Learned" by Karen W. Arenson. The New York Times, May 14,2003 [2]
3. ^ Harvard Magazine, [3].

External links

• Audio Interview with Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of The New York Times Book Review. (MP3 format)
• Lemann and Steve Shepard discuss future of journalism.