David Remnick
16th Annual John S. Knight Lecturer
David Remnick joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1992, after 10 years at the Washington Post. He was the Post's Moscow correspondent from 1988-92, an experience that formed the basis of his 1993 book on the former Soviet Union, "Lenin's Tomb," which won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. He is also the author of "Resurrection," on the struggle to build a Russian state from the ruins of the Soviet empire, "King of the World," on Muhammad Ali, and "The Devil Problem (and Other True Stories)," a collection of his New Yorker pieces. In addition, he has edited four anthologies of New Yorker pieces, including "Life Stories," "Wonderful Town," "The New Gilded Age," and "Fierce Pajamas."
