Sam Tanenhaus (born October 31, 1955) is an American author, historian and biographer. Events 445 BC – Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 91 NLTse Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
Tanenhaus received his B. A. in English from Grinnell College in 1977 and a M. Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in A. in English Literature from Yale University in 1978.
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. Vanity Fair is an American magazine of Culture, Fashion, and Politics published by Condé Nast Publications. Since 2004, he has been the senior editor of The New York Times Book Review. The New York Times Book Review is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed His 1997 biography of Whittaker Chambers won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. The year 1997 in literature involved some significant events and new books Whittaker Chambers ( April 1, 1901 &ndash July 9, 1961) born Jay Vivian Chambers and also known as David Whittaker Since 1980 the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism,
Bibliography
- Tanenhaus, Sam (1986). Literature Unbound. Ballantine Books. ISBN 0345332970.
- Tanenhaus, Sam (1988). Louis Armstrong (Black Americans of Achievement). Chelsea House Publications. ISBN 0791002217.
- Tanenhaus, Sam and Gross, Steve (Photographer) (1995). Old Greenwich Village: An Architectural Portrait. Wiley, John & Sons, Inc. . ISBN 0471144053.
- Tanenhaus, Sam (1997). Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. Modern Library. ISBN 0-375-75145-9.
- Edited by Brinkley, Douglas and Tanenhaus, Sam (2007). McCarthyism in America. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300111657. (Due for release in February 2007)
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