Renata Adler
Renata Adler was born in Milan and raised in Connecticut. She received a B.A. from Bryn Mawr, an M.A. from Harvard, a D.d’E.S. from the Sorbonne, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an honorary LL.D. from Georgetown. Adler became a staff writer at
The New Yorker in 1963 and, except for a year as the chief film critic of
The New York Times, remained at
The New Yorker for the next four decades. Her books include
A Year in the Dark (1969);
Toward a Radical Middle (1970);
Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al., Sharon v. Time (1986);
Canaries in the Mineshaft (2001);
Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker (1999);
Irreparable Harm: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Decision That Made George W. Bush President (2004); and the novels
Speedboat (1976, Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel) and
Pitch Dark (1983), both available as NYRB Classics.