Nicholas Lemann

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Nicholas Berthelot Lemann is dean and Henry R. Luce professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.

He is a journalist and author of several books on 20th century United States history:

• The Big Test (1999) (The story of how standardized tests (such as the SAT) became very important in the United States)
• The Promised Land : The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991) (On the migration of millions of black people from the South to the North in the 1940s and 1950s)
• Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (2006) (The story of Reconstuction in the South after the Civil War)

Among his more recent writings for The New Yorker magazine are a September 2005 commentary on Hurricane Katrina and an August 2006 article on Citizen journalism, titled, Amateur Hour: Journalism Without Journalists.

He has also been:

• Managing editor of the Washington Monthly
• associate editor and executive editor of the Texas Monthly
• a national staff reporter for The Washington Post
• a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly
• a staff writer for The New Yorker
• President of the Harvard Crimson

He graduated from Harvard University in 1976. His sister is Nancy Lemann, a novelist.

Lemann has been married twice. His first wife was Dominique Alice Browning, who is now the editor in chief of House and Garden magazine; they married in 1983 and have two sons. His second wife is Judith Anne Shulevitz, who was a columnist for Slate and The New York Times Book Review; married in 1999, they have a son and a daughter.[1]