About David Remnick

By Joe Foley

Remnick was born in Hackensack, New Jersey.

Remnick graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature in 1981.

He accepted a job at the Washington Post shortly after graduating.

Remnick started as a night crime reporter, a position he held only briefly.

He transitioned to the sports section, where George Solomon was the Post’s sports editor.

After ten years at The Post, Remnick joined The New Yorker.

He has reported on Russia, the Middle East and Europe for the magazine.

His 2010 biography on Barack Obama, “The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama,” debuted at No. 3 in the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction.

Remnick has also contributed pieces to The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, Esquire and The New Republic.