David Remnick in public discussion at university Nov. 20

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and author of the 2006 book “Reporting” (Knopf), a collection of his profiles for the magazine, will visit Princeton University on Nov. 20.
A prolific writer well known for his breadth of interests, Mr. Remnick will participate in a discussion with Princeton University Professor Michael Wood on topics ranging from Russian politics and the U.S. presidential race to A. J. Liebling.
The event will take place at 8 p.m. in McCosh Hall 50 on the campus. It is free and open to the public.
Mr. Remnick, who won a Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for his book “Lenin’s Tomb” (Random House, 1993) about the demise of the Soviet empire, grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Princeton University.
He began his journalistic career in 1982 at the Washington Post. Fluent in Russian, he served as the Post’s Moscow correspondent from 1988 to 1992, when he left to become a staff writer at The New Yorker. Before being tapped as editor in 1998 he had written over 100 articles on subjects as diverse as boxing and the politics of the Middle East.
His other books include a biography, “King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero” (Vintage, 1998); “Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia” (Random House, 1997); and “The Devil Problem (and Other True Stories)” (Vintage, 1997); as well as four anthologies of New Yorker pieces.
Mr. Remnick has been a visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and has taught at Columbia and Princeton universities.
For more information see http://lectures.princeton.edu.