Amy Davidson Sorkin
Davidson Sorkin at New America NYC in 2015
Born
Amy Davidson

1969 or 1970 (age 53–54)
NationalityAmerican
EducationA.B. Harvard University
Occupation(s)Journalist
Writer
SpouseDavid James Sorkin

Amy Davidson Sorkin (formerly Amy Davidson; born 1969 or 1970)[1] is an American author, journalist and magazine editor.

Biography

Amy Davidson grew up in New York City. She graduated from Hunter College High School,[2] and attended Harvard University, where she received an AB in Social Studies. Before joining The New Yorker, she lived and worked in Germany.[3]

Davidson joined The New Yorker magazine in 1995. In 1997, she became co-deputy head of the magazine's fact-checking department; in 2000, she was named an associate editor; in 2003, she was named senior editor. She became a staff writer in 2015[4] and focuses on politics and international affairs.[5] Her editing contributions to The New Yorker have won the National Magazine Award and the George Polk Award. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[6]

Personal life

Amy Davidson and David James Sorkin, the general counsel of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, were married on June 24, 2017, in a Jewish ceremony in Manhattan at the New-York Historical Society.[1] Subsequently, she began to publish under the name Amy Davidson Sorkin.[7][8]

Davidson Sorkin's first marriage ended with the death of her husband.[1]

Bibliography

Essays and reporting

  • Davidson, Amy (December 2, 2013). "Heal thyself". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 89 (39): 21–22.
  • (February 3, 2014). "Game change". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 89 (47): 19–20.[lower-alpha 1]
  • (July 28, 2014). "Crossing borders". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 90 (21): 21–22.
  • (December 15, 2014). "Safer streets". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 90 (40): 21–22.
  • (February 9, 2015). "God and the G.O.P." The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 90 (47): 17–18.
  • (March 16, 2015). "Atomic clocks". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 91 (4): 19–20.[lower-alpha 2]
  • (April 20, 2015). "What videos show". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 91 (9): 29–30.[lower-alpha 3]
  • (May 18, 2015). "Unclear dangers". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 91 (13): 33–34.
  • (August 3, 2015). "Broken". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 91 (22): 17–18.
  • (January 25, 2016). "Radical measures". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 91 (45): 19–20.[lower-alpha 4]
  • (February 22, 2016). "Courting Black voters". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 92 (2): 17–18.[lower-alpha 5]
  • (March 21, 2016). "Conventional wisdom". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 92 (6): 31–32.
  • (November 7, 2016). "October surprises". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 92 (36): 15–16.[lower-alpha 6]
  • (January 2, 2017). "Mrs. Obama". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 92 (43): 17–18.[lower-alpha 7]
  • (January 30, 2017). "Trump takes the oath". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 92 (47): 17–18.[lower-alpha 8]
  • (June 19, 2017). "The man in the room". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 93 (17): 19–20.[lower-alpha 9]
  • (July 3, 2017). "Feeling worse". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 93 (19): 17–18.[lower-alpha 10]
  • Sorkin, Amy Davidson (August 21, 2017). "Misdiagnosing a crisis". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 93 (24): 15–16.[lower-alpha 11]
  • (November 6, 2017). "The silent majority". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 93 (35): 17–18.[lower-alpha 12]
  • (October 1, 2018). "The next confirmation". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 94 (30).
  • (November 18, 2019). "Alter-ego trips". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 95 (36): 17–18.[lower-alpha 13]
  • (June 1, 2020). "Safer schools". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 96 (15): 11–12.[lower-alpha 14]
  • (August 17, 2020). "Failing schools". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 96 (23): 11–12.[lower-alpha 15]
  • (September 7, 2020). "Out of control". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 96 (26): 17, 20.[lower-alpha 16]
  • (December 28, 2020). "Ladies and gentlemen". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 96 (42): 17–18.[lower-alpha 17]
  • (January 25, 2021). "Fear itself". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 96 (45): 11–12.[lower-alpha 18]
  • (June 21, 2021). "Viral theories". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 97 (17): 13–14.[lower-alpha 19]
  • (September 20, 2021). "Forever trial". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 97 (29): 13–14.[lower-alpha 20]
  • (October 4, 2021). "Stock answers". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 97 (31): 15–16.[lower-alpha 21]
  • (May 16, 2022). "After the leak". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 98 (12): 17–18.[lower-alpha 22]
  • (May 30, 2022). "Gun country". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 98 (14): 13–14.[lower-alpha 23]
  • (October 10, 2022). "Spooked : what's wrong with the C.I.A.?". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 98 (32): 60–65.[lower-alpha 24]
  • (February 13–20, 2023). "Hitting the ceiling". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 99 (1): 13–14.[lower-alpha 25]

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Notes
  1. Richard Sherman.
  2. Online version is titled "The Iran countdown".
  3. Online version is titled "A video isn’t enough".
  4. Title in the online table of contents is "Hillary feels the Bern".
  5. Title in the online table of contents is "Clinton and Sanders court Black voters".
  6. Online version is titled "Yet more e-mail trouble for Clinton".
  7. Online version is titled "Michelle Obama and us".
  8. Online version is titled "Bitterness and resentment at Trump’s Inauguration".
  9. Online version is titled "The only man in the room with Trump".
  10. Online version is titled "The Senate's disastrous health-care Bill".
  11. Online version is titled "Trump misdiagnoses the opioid crisis".
  12. Online version is titled "Jeff Flake and the G.O.P.’s complicity problem".
  13. Online version is titled "Trump’s frantic fight for immunity".
  14. Online version is titled "The complex question of reopening schools".
  15. Online version is titled "The woeful inadequacy of school-reopening plans".
  16. Online version is titled "The Republicans' conspiratorial convention".
  17. Online version is titled "First Ladies and Second Gentlemen".
  18. Online version is titled "Why Trump must go on trial".
  19. Online version is titled "The battle over the coronavirus lab-leak theory".
  20. Online version is titled "The forever trial at Guantánamo".
  21. Online version is titled "The supply-chain mystery".
  22. Online version is titled "How Alito’s draft opinion on abortion rights would change America".
  23. Online version is titled "A consequential gun ruling after the Buffalo massacre".
  24. Title in the online table of contents is "Has the C.I.A. done more harm than good?".
  25. Online version is titled "The new G.O.P. takes the country hostage with the debt ceiling".

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Amy Davidson, David Sorkin". New York Times. June 25, 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  2. Amy Davidson on linkedin.com (accessed 13 May 2013)
  3. The New Yorker website, accessed 2 January 2013
  4. Amy Davidson on linkedin.com (accessed 9th March 2015)
  5. The Harvard University website, accessed 30 May 2011
  6. "Amy Davidson". Archived from the original on 2011-05-18. Retrieved 2011-05-30. Center for Communication website, accessed 30 May 2011
  7. Note that contributions to The New Yorker published by Davidson before her marriage to Sorkin are now being attributed to Amy Davidson Sorkin.
  8. "Contributors: Amy Davidson Sorkin". The New Yorker. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
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