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David Remnick, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and editor of The New Yorker magazine, has been forced to cancel his lecture scheduled for 8 p.m. Monday, April 23, in the Williams Center for the Arts auditorium.
Remnick has cited unexpected professional commitments at The New Yorker as the reason for the cancellation. There are currently no plans for the event to be rescheduled.
The lecture was part of the Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Visiting Lecture series. The series is hosted by the Office of the President and presented by the College’s Cultural Program.
Remnick was scheduled to discuss his career as an award-winning journalist, author, and editor with a focus on The New Yorkers’ unique balance of political reporting with arts and culture, original fiction and poetry, and a wide range of essays.
Remnick began his career in 1982 as a staff writer for the Washington Post. After six years, he became the paper’s Moscow correspondent, which provided him with the material for his first book, Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (1994).
The book chronicles the life of the Soviet Union from its early days up to its collapse, using numerous eyewitness accounts from his reporting. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the George Polk Award for Journalism.
Resurrection: Struggle for a New Russia (1997) is the follow-up to Lenin’s Tomb and explores the struggle to build a Russian state from the ruins of the Soviet empire.
Remnick started as a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1992 and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 1998 with his article “Kid Dynamite Blows Up,” about boxer Mike Tyson. In 1999, he was named editor of The New Yorker as well as “Editor of the Year” by Advertising Age.
His other books include King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of the American Hero (1998) and Reporting: Writings from the New Yorker (2006). He received a B.A. in comparative literature from Princeton University.