television features. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and 2014 Franke Visiting Fellow at The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, where he had also been a Poynter Fellow, he has received honorary doctorates from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in 2013 and the Pratt Institute in May 2014. In 2018, the climate series authored by Kimmelman and Josh Haner in The New York Times won an award from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) for "two superb articles on the environmental threats facing two Asian cities" that was "journalism par excellence." Kimmelman is an adjunct professor on the faculty of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He has delivered the Robert B. Silvers Lecture at the New York Public Library and contributed regularly to The New York Review of Books. In November 2020, he gave the Raoul Wallenberg lecture at the University of Michigan. He is the founder and editor-at-large of a philanthropically supported journalism initiative at The New York Times called Headway which is focused on global challenges and paths toward progress. Personal life In 1988, he married the writer and editor Maria Simson. BooksStudies in Modern Art: The Museum of Modern Art at Mid-Century (Harry N. Abrams, 1994)Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere (Random House, 1998)The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa (Penguin Press, 2005)Oscar Niemeyer (Assouline, 2009)More Things Like This (McSweeney's/Chronicle Books, 2009)Playing Piano for Pleasure by Charles Cooke, foreword by Michael Kimmelman (Skyhorse, 2011)Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space (New Village Press, 2012)The Olympic City photographs by Jon Pack and Gary Hustwit, foreword by Michael Kimmelman (2013)Shigeru Ban: Humanitarian Architecture, essay by Michael Kimmelman (Aspen Art Press and D.A.P., 2014)City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World, introduction by Michael Kimmelman (Harper Collins, 2016)The Intimate City: Walking New York'' (Penguin Press, 2022) References External links Interview with Kimmelman on architecture , , plays Debussy's L'isle joyeuse , plays Chopin's Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48, No. 1 1958 births American architecture critics American art critics Critics employed by The New York Times Yale College alumni Harvard University alumni Living people People from Greenwich Village Friends Seminary alumni