Sam Tanenhaus
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Sam Tanenhaus (born October 31, 1955) is an American historian, biographer, and journalist. He currently is a writer for Prospect.[1]
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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Career
Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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
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References
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- ↑ "National Book Awards – 1997". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
- ↑ "Biography or Autobiography". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
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External links
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- 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
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- 1955 births
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- Radical centrist writers
- The New York Times editors
- Yale University alumni