Sam Tanenhaus Prospect, Bio, Wiki, Age, Wife, Books, Salary, And Net Worth

Sam Tanenhaus Bio | Wiki

Sam Tanenhaus is an American biographer, historian, and journalist. He currently serves as a writer for Prospect. From 1997 to 1999,  Sam served as an assistant editor at The New York Times. Also, he served as a  contributing editor at Vanity Fair from 1999 to 2004.  Sam was the editor of The New York Times Book Review from April 2004 to April 2013.

In his career, Sam has written many featured articles for The New York Times Book Review including a 10-year retrospective on the politics of radical centrism. Sam has been a visiting professor at St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto since 2019. Mainly, he virtually teaches courses on American politics and media studies.

Sam Tanenhaus Age

He was born on October 31, 1955, in the United States of America. Sam is 66 years old.

Sam Tanenhaus Height

He is a man of above-average stature. Sam stands at a height of 5 ft 9 in ( Approx 1.75m).

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Sam Tanenhaus Family

He was born to his father and mother in the United States of America. Sam has three brothers namely Michael ( an American psycholinguist, author, and lecturer) Beth ( an American filmmaker, screenwriter, visual artist, and creator), and David. However, Sam has not publicly shared any information about his parents.

Sam Tanenhaus Wife

He is married to a beutiful woman whose details are not publicly available. Previously, the couple lived in Tarrytown, New York but they have since relocated to Essex, Connecticut.

Sam Tanenhaus Education

She studied English at Grinnell College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the same in 1977. From there, Sam joined Yale University and earned an M.A. in English Literature in 1978.

Sam Tanenhaus Buckley |  William F Buckley

William F. Buckley ( William Francis Buckley) was an American public intellectual, political commentator, and conservative author who was born on November 24, 1925, in New York, New York. William founded National Review in 1955. The magazine stimulated the conservative movement in the mid-20th century United States. He hosted 1,429 episodes of the public affairs television show Firing Line from 1966 to 1999. Firing Line was the longest-running public affairs show in American television history with a single host. William became known for his distinctive Mid-Atlantic idiolect and wide vocabulary. He died on February 27, 2008, in Stamford, Connecticut, at the age of 82. Sam has written a biography of William

Sam Tanenhaus New York Times | Prospect

He currently serves as a columnist and the U.S. Writer at Large for the British monthly Prospect. Before joining the Prospect,  Sam served as the editor of The New York Times Book Review as well as the editor of “The Week in Review” section. Sam has also worked at The New York Times, as the assistant editor of the Op-Ed pages, and has also written for the Book Review and the Op-Ed page. In addition to that, sam has worked for “Arts & Ideas,” the “Week in Review” as well as The Times Magazine.

He previously served as a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, where he wrote feature articles on politics and culture. Sam’s writings have appeared in many major publications. His most recent essays appeared in Esquire,  Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and the New York Times Book Review. He has authored several books including The Death of Conservatism and Whittaker Chambers: The latter won the Los Angeles Times and became a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Sam Tanenhaus Whittaker Chambers

Whittaker Chambers ( Jay Vivian Chambers) was an American writer-editor who was born on April 1, 1901, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During his early years, Whittaker was a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932–1938). He defected from the Soviet underground in 1972 and worked for Time magazine from 1939 to 1948. Later, Whittaker testified about the Ware group in what became the Hiss case for perjury between 1949 and 1950. It is often referred to as the trial of the century and is described in his 1952 memoir titled Witness.

Afterward, Whittaker worked as a senior editor at National Review from 1957 to 1959. The then US President Ronald Reagan awarded Whittaker the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1984. Whittaker died on July 9, 1961, at the age of 60 at Westminster, Maryland, U.S. In 1997, Sam wrote a biography of Whittaker Chambers which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Also, the same biography was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Sam Tanenhaus Books

– 1986 Literature Unbound. Ballantine Books.
– 1988 Louis Armstrong. Black Americans of Achievement. Chelsea House Publications.
– 1995 Old Greenwich Village: An Architectural Portrait. Gross, Steve (Photographer). Wiley, John & Sons, Inc.
– 1997 Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. Modern Library.
– 2009 The Death of Conservatism. Random House.

Sam Tanenhaus Salary

He currently serves as a writer for Prospect. Sam earns an average salary of $96,736 per year.

Sam Tanenhaus Net Worth

He is an American biographer, historian, and journalist. Sam has accumulated an estimated net worth of $2,683,671.

How Old Is Sam Tanenhaus

Sam is 66 years old. He was born on October 31, 1955, in the United States of America.

Who Is Sam Tanenhaus

Sam is an American biographer, historian, and journalist. He currently serves as a writer for Prospect.

Is Sam Tanenhaus Married

Sam is married. Previously, the couple lived in Tarrytown, New York but they have since relocated to Essex, Connecticut.