New Yorker Editor Selected as Princeton's Class Day Speaker

David Remnick, editor of the The New Yorker and an alumnus of Princeton University, will be the University's Class Day speaker on Monday, June 3 at 10:30 a.m., the University announced on Thursday afternoon. 

Princeton's Class Day speaker is chosen by the graduating class. Last year actor Steve Carrell was the featured speaker, the year before it was actress and alumnus Brooke Shields. 

According to a release posted on the Princeton University website, Remnick earned his undergraduate degree in comparative literature from Princeton in 1982 and became a reporter at The Washington Post the following year. He became at staff writer at The New Yorker in 1992 and became editor  of the magazine in July, 1998. 

Remnick has authored several books, including  “King of the World,” “Resurrection,” and “Lenin’s Tomb.” "Lenin's Tomb" earned Remnick the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism, according to his biography on The New Yorker. 

His most recent book, published in 2010, is “The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama,” was published by Knopf Doubleday in April 2010.