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The open mind rule and ruin sam tanenhaus
Sam Tanenhaus (born October 31, 1955) is an American historian, biographer, and journalist. He is a writer-at-large for The New York Times.
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- The open mind rule and ruin sam tanenhaus
- Nonfiction forum sam tanenhaus the new school
- Early years
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Nonfiction forum sam tanenhaus the new school
Early years
Tanenhaus received his B.A. in English from Grinnell College in 1977 and a M.A. in English Literature from Yale University in 1978. His siblings include psycholinguist Michael Tanenhaus, filmmaker Beth Tanenhaus Winsten, and legal historian David S. Tanenhaus.
Career
Tanenhaus was an assistant editor at The New York Times from 1997 to 1999, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair from 1999 until 2004. From April 2004 to April 2013 he was the editor of The New York Times Book Review. He has written many featured articles for that publication, including a 10-year retrospective on the politics of radical centrism. His 1997 biography of Whittaker Chambers won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for both the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Personal life
Tanenhaus formerly lived in Tarrytown, New York with his wife. Currently, he resides in Essex, Connecticut.