Sam Tanenhaus (born October 31, 1955) is an American historian, biographer, and journalist.
[edit] Biography
Tanenhaus received his B.A. in English from Grinnell College in 1977 and a M.A. in English Literature from Yale University in 1978. He is currently the editor of The New York Times Book Review and Week in Review.[1] His siblings include psycholinguist Michael Tanenhaus, filmmaker Beth Tanenhaus Winsten, and legal historian David S. Tanenhaus.
Tanenhaus was an assistant editor at The New York Times from 1997 to 1999, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair from 1999 until 2004. Since 2004, he has been the senior editor of The New York Times Book Review.[1][2] His 1997 biography of Whittaker Chambers won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
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- Tanenhaus, Sam (1986). Literature Unbound. Ballantine Books. ISBN 0345332970.
- Tanenhaus, Sam (1988). Louis Armstrong (Black Americans of Achievement). Chelsea House Publications. ISBN 0791002217.
- Tanenhaus, Sam and Gross, Steve (Photographer) (1995). Old Greenwich Village: An Architectural Portrait. Wiley, John & Sons, Inc.. ISBN 0471144053.
- Tanenhaus, Sam (1997). Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. Modern Library. ISBN 0-375-75145-9.
- Brinkley, Douglas; Tanenhaus, Sam, eds (2007). McCarthyism in America. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300111657.
- Tanenhaus, Sam (2009). The Death of Conservatism. Random House. ISBN 1400068843.
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