David Remnick was named the editor-in-chief of The New Yorker in 1998. He joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1992, after ten years with the Washington Post, where he was a Moscow correspondent. He is the author of seven books, including “Lenin’s Tomb,” for which he received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism. Remnick has written hundreds of pieces for The New Yorker and, in 2015, launched “The New Yorker Radio Hour” as host. During his tenure, The New Yorker has won more than fifty National Magazine Awards and six Pulitzer Prizes. In 2016, Remnick was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.