Adam Gopnik

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August 24, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States

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An American writer, essayist and commentator. He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker—to which he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir and criticism—and as the author of the essay collection Paris to the Moon, an account of the half-decade that Gopnik, wife Martha, and son Luke spent in the capital of France.

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Books by Adam Gopnik

Average rating: 3.68 · 7,163 ratings · 1,172 reviews · 40 distinct works

	Paris to the Moon 3.68 avg rating — 4,505 ratings — published 2000 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York 3.65 avg rating — 518 ratings — published 2006 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The King in the Window by Adam Gopnik, Omar Rayyan (Illustrator) 3.41 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life 3.46 avg rating — 319 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Best American Essays 2008 by Adam Gopnik (Editor), Robert Atwan (Series Editor) 3.68 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food 2.99 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Winter: Five Windows on the Season 3.95 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology 3.91 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Steps Across the Water by Adam Gopnik, Bruce McCall (Illustrator) 3.04 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Elliott Erwitt's New York by Adam Gopnik, Elliott Erwitt (Photographer) 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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Quotes by Adam Gopnik

“Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs.”
― Adam Gopnik

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“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”
― Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon

tags: language

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“American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World”
― Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon

tags: americans , disney-world , humor

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