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Date: April 16, 1998
Author David Remnick to Speak On "Reporting from Russia" at Princeton
Princeton, N.J. -- Pulitzer-prize winning author David Remnick will speak on "Ten Years Reporting From Russia: New Worlds, Old Worlds," at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Wednesday, April 22, at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
Remnick, who earned his bachelor’s degree from Princeton in 1981, has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1992. He has written more than 100 articles for the magazine, among them profiles of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Ralph Ellison, Katharine Graham, Pope John Paul II, Michael Jordan, George Stephanopoulos, and Howard Stern.
Before joining The New Yorker in 1992, Remnick spent ten years as a staff writer for The Washington Post, including a four-year tenure as the paper’s Moscow correspondent. This experience resulted in his 1993 book on the former Soviet Union, Lenin’s Tomb. The book received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism.
Remnick’s latest book, Resurrection (Random House, 1997) focuses on the struggle to build a Russian state from the ruins of the Soviet Union, and is the first book to cover the recent elections in Russia. A collection of his New Yorker articles, titled The Devil Problem (and Other True Stories) was also published in 1997.
Remnick’s address is the third annual Cyril Black Memorial Lecture. Black was a distinguished academic who was preeminent in the fields of Russian history and modernization studies. He was a member of Princeton’s faculty for 47 years, from 1939 until his retirement in 1986, and director of its Center of International Studies for seventeen years, from 1968 to 1985.
The lecture is sponsored by the Center of International Studies and Princeton’s Program in Russian Studies.