Adam Gopnik is a staff writer for The New Yorker. This program grows out of a series of lectures Gopnik organized and hosted for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in coordination with the current exhibit, “Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven.”
Author of books, ranging from essay collections about Paris and food to children’s novels, including The King in the Window, Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York, Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food, and Winter: Five Windows on the Season, Gopnik has won three National Magazine awards, for essays and for criticism. A recipient of the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting, he has written for The New Yorker since 1986.