ABSTRACT
Adam Gopnik is perhaps best known as a long-time staff writer for The New Yorker and as author of Paris to the Moon, a book on living in France which appeared in 2000. He is the author of Through the Children's Gate, Angels and Ages, Darwin and Modern Life, and The Table Comes First, and the Meaning of Food. Adam Gopnik has been honored three times with the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism and received the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting as well as the Canadian National Magazine Award Gold Medal for arts writing. An essayist is someone who writes about all of life's experiences, who writes about the world, and one's experiences and how the two interpenetrate. Montaigne, the French writer of the 16th century was the first great essayist. So, what an essayist does is to write about his life and his experiences.
