Amy Davidson Sorkin

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Amy Davidson Sorkin
Amy Davidson at New America NYC- Ghost Fleet (cropped).jpg
Davidson Sorkin at New America NYC in 2015
Born
Amy Davidson

1969/1970 (age 53–54)
NationalityAmerican
EducationA.B. Harvard University
OccupationJournalist
Writer
SpouseDavid James Sorkin

Amy Davidson Sorkin (formerly Amy Davidson; born 1969 or 1970) is an American author, journalist and magazine editor.

Biography

Amy Davidson was born in 1969 or 1970[1] and grew up in New York City. She graduated from Hunter College High School,[2] and attended Harvard University, where she received an AB in Social Studies. Before joining The New Yorker, she lived and worked in Germany.[3]

Davidson Sorkin joined The New Yorker magazine in 1995. In 1997, she became co-deputy head of the magazine's fact-checking department; in 2000, she was named an associate editor; in 2003, she was named senior editor. She became a staff writer in 2015[4] and focuses on politics and international affairs.[5] Her editing contributions to The New Yorker have won the National Magazine Award and the George Polk Award. Davidson Sorkin is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[6]

Personal life

Amy Davidson and David James Sorkin, the general counsel of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, were married on June 24, 2017 in a Jewish ceremony in Manhattan at the New-York Historical Society.[1] Subsequently, she began to publish under the name Amy Davidson Sorkin.[7][8]

Davidson Sorkin's first marriage ended with the death of her husband.[9]

Bibliography

Essays and reporting

  • Davidson, Amy (December 2, 2013). "Heal thyself". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 89 (39): 21–22.
  • — (February 3, 2014). "Game change". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 89 (47): 19–20.[a]
  • — (July 28, 2014). "Crossing borders". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 90 (21): 21–22.
  • — (December 15, 2014). "Safer streets". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 90 (40): 21–22.
  • — (February 9, 2015). "God and the G.O.P." The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 90 (47): 17–18.
  • — (March 16, 2015). "Atomic clocks". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 91 (4): 19–20.[b]
  • — (April 20, 2015). "What videos show". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 91 (9): 29–30.[c]
  • — (May 18, 2015). "Unclear dangers". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 91 (13): 33–34.
  • — (August 3, 2015). "Broken". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 91 (22): 17–18.
  • — (January 25, 2016). "Radical measures". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 91 (45): 19–20.[d]
  • — (February 22, 2016). "Courting Black voters". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 92 (2): 17–18.[e]
  • — (March 21, 2016). "Conventional wisdom". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 92 (6): 31–32.
  • — (November 7, 2016). "October surprises". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 92 (36): 15–16.[f]
  • — (January 2, 2017). "Mrs. Obama". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 92 (43): 17–18.[g]
  • — (January 30, 2017). "Trump takes the oath". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 92 (47): 17–18.[h]
  • — (June 19, 2017). "The man in the room". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 93 (17): 19–20.[i]
  • — (July 3, 2017). "Feeling worse". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 93 (19): 17–18.[j]
  • Sorkin, Amy Davidson (August 21, 2017). "Misdiagnosing a crisis". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 93 (24): 15–16.[k]
  • — (November 6, 2017). "The silent majority". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 93 (35): 17–18.[l]
  • — (October 1, 2018). "The next confirmation". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 94 (30).
  • — (November 18, 2019). "Alter-ego trips". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 95 (36): 17–18.[m]
  • — (June 1, 2020). "Safer schools". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 96 (15): 11–12.[n]
  • — (August 17, 2020). "Failing schools". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 96 (23): 11–12.[o]
  • — (September 7, 2020). "Out of control". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 96 (26): 17, 20.[p]
  • — (December 28, 2020). "Ladies and gentlemen". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 96 (42): 17–18.[q]
  • — (June 21, 2021). "Viral theories". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 97 (17): 13–14.[r]

Columns from newyorker.com

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Conversation
Daily Comment
New Yorker Blog
New Yorker Festival
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Q. & A.

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Notes
  1. ^ Richard Sherman.
  2. ^ Online version is titled "The Iran countdown".
  3. ^ Online version is titled "A video isn’t enough".
  4. ^ Title in the online table of contents is "Hillary feels the Bern".
  5. ^ Title in the online table of contents is "Clinton and Sanders court Black voters".
  6. ^ Online version is titled "Yet more e-mail trouble for Clinton".
  7. ^ Online version is titled "Michelle Obama and us".
  8. ^ Online version is titled "Bitterness and resentment at Trump’s Inauguration".
  9. ^ Online version is titled "The only man in the room with Trump".
  10. ^ Online version is titled "The Senate's disastrous health-care Bill".
  11. ^ Online version is titled "Trump misdiagnoses the opioid crisis".
  12. ^ Online version is titled "Jeff Flake and the G.O.P.’s complicity problem".
  13. ^ Online version is titled "Trump’s frantic fight for immunity".
  14. ^ Online version is titled "The complex question of reopening schools".
  15. ^ Online version is titled "The woeful inadequacy of school-reopening plans".
  16. ^ Online version is titled "The Republicans' conspiratorial convention".
  17. ^ Online version is titled "First Ladies and Second Gentlemen".
  18. ^ Online version is titled "The battle over the coronavirus lab-leak theory".

References

  1. ^ a b "Amy Davidson, David Sorkin". New York Times. June 25, 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  2. ^ [1] Amy Davidson on linkedin.com (accessed 13 May 2013)
  3. ^ [2] The New Yorker website, accessed 2 January 2013
  4. ^ [3] Amy Davidson on linkedin.com (accessed 9th March 2015)
  5. ^ [4] The Harvard University website, accessed 30 May 2011
  6. ^ "Amy Davidson". Archived from the original on 2011-05-18. Retrieved 2011-05-30. Center for Communication website, accessed 30 May 2011
  7. ^ Note that contributions to The New Yorker published by Davidson before her marriage to Sorkin are now being attributed to Amy Davidson Sorkin.
  8. ^ "Contributors: Amy Davidson Sorkin". The New Yorker. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  9. ^ "Amy Davidson, David Sorkin". New York Times. June 25, 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2017.