Theater in New York, and included new songs co-written with David Shire, Scott Frankel, and Peter Mills. Future projects include a new musical with Scott Frankel. Personal life Gopnik lives in New York with his wife, Martha Rebecca Parker, and two children, Luke and Olivia. Martha's mother is Canadian filmmaker Gudrun Parker. His five siblings include Blake Gopnik, art critic for The Daily Beast, and Alison Gopnik, a child psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Honors and appearances A guest on Charlie Rose, Gopnik has received three National Magazine Awards for Essay and Criticism, and a George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. His entry on the culture of the United States is featured in the Encyclopædia Britannica. Gopnik participates as a member of the jury for the New York International Children's Film Festival. Gopnik recently wrote and presented Lighting Up New York, a cultural journey through the recent history of New York for Britain's BBC Four and is a regular contributor to the BBC Radio 4 weekly talk series A Point of View. He taught at the annual Iceland Writers Retreat in Reykjavík, Iceland, in spring 2015. In 2016, Gopnik began a free lecture series at the Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein Atrium, titled The History of the World in 100 Performances. Gopnik appears as himself in the 2022 film Tár, interviewing the film's lead character about her views on conducting at The New Yorker Festival. Bibliography References External links Stories told by Adam Gopnik at The Moth 1956 births Living people 21st-century American novelists American children's writers American male essayists American male journalists American male novelists Jewish American writers McGill University alumni New York University Institute of Fine Arts alumni The New Yorker staff writers The New Yorker critics Novelists from Pennsylvania People associated with the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) Writers from Philadelphia 21st-century American essayists 21st-century American male writers