Nicholas Lemann
Author of The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
About the Author
Nicholas Lemann, a native of New Orleans, developed an interest in journalism during his teenage years. This eagerness to write was coupled with a keen interest in United States history and literature. He pooled his curiosities, earning a degree in American literature and history from Harvard show more University in 1976. Journalism became Lemann's main occupation, as he built his writing career through working for the Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, and the Washington Post. In 1983, he joined the Atlantic Monthly staff. His love for American history peaked with the publication of his commentary on the African-American migration to Chicago in search of jobs and a better life. Lemann's book, The Promised Land, captured the 1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in journalism. His articles span many interests, from book reviews and political topics to travel stories about the Catskill Mountains and other natural wonders. He contributes many articles, not only to the Atlantic Monthly but to several other magazines as well. Nicholas Lemann, his wife Dominique Browning, and their two sons live in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography) Nicholas Lemann was born in New Orleans in 1954. He has been a journalist for more than twenty years. His last book was the prizewinning The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. He lives in Pelham, New York. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Nicholas Lemann at the 2006 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States. Lemann won the 1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for his book The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1318868
Works by Nicholas Lemann
Associated Works
What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (2007) — Contributor — 125 copies
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- Lemann, Nicholas
- Birthdate
- 1954
- Gender
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- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Education
- Harvard University
- Occupations
- journalist
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political writer - Relationships
- Shulevitz, Judith (wife)
Lemann, Nancy (sister) - Organizations
- The New Yorker
The Atlantic Monthly
The Washington Post
Texas Monthly
Washington Monthly
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
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- ISBNs
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