Nicholas Lemann

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]

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^[3]

Lemann is a member of the Council on the Future of Media. This council is "championing a new global, independent news and information service whose role is to inform, educate and improve the state of the world- one that would take advantage of all platforms of content delivery from mobile to satellite and online to create a new global network."^[4]

Personal

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 November 7, 1999, they have a son and a daughter.^[5] His sister is Nancy Lemann, a novelist. He is a practicing Jew.^[6]

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. ^ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/03/04/j_school_dean.html
4. ^ Kincaid, Cliff (February 9, 2009). "Global Television for Our Future Global Leader". Right Side News. http://www.rightsidenews.com/200902093625/editorial/global-television-for-our-future-global-leader.html. Retrieved 2009-02-10. 
5. ^ Harvard Magazine, [3].
6. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/dining/01feed.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Some%20Milk%20With%20Your%20Seder?&st=cse

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.