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Adam Gopnik, BA’80, DLitt'13

Author and staff writer for The New Yorker

My undergraduate study was transformative…I was able to study so many kinds of things. I did a seminar on Wittgenstein, I did the full cycle of Renaissance art and Baroque art, so that when I arrived in graduate school…I knew a lot because I had had a very exigeant education in art history.”

Adam Gopnik is a bestselling author and long-time staff writer at The New Yorker. His numerous books include A Thousand Small Sanities and At the Strangers’ Gate. Gopnik grew up in Montreal and is a die-hard Canadiens fan. He received an honorary degree from McGill in 2013.

Adam Gopnik’s books have been featured in the McGill News alumni magazine, including in 2017 and in 2019.