The Times Appoints Book Review Editor By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Sam Tanenhaus, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, has been named editor of The New York Times Book Review.
The appointment was announced yesterday by Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times. Mr. Tanenhaus, 48, succeeds Charles McGrath, who will be a writer at large for the newspaper.
From 1997 until he joined Vanity Fair in 1999, Mr. Tanenhaus was an assistant editor of the Op-Ed pages of The Times. He is the author of "Whittaker Chambers: A Biography" (Random House, 1997), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography in 1997 and was a finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1997 and the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1998. In addition to his book and articles for The Times and Vanity Fair, Mr. Tanenhaus has written for publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, National Review, The New Criterion, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic and Commentary.
Mr. Tanenhaus graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa in 1977 with a degree in English and received a master's degree in English literature from Yale in 1978.