Amy Davidson Sorkin (formerly Amy Davidson; born 1969 or 1970) is an American author, journalist and magazine editor.
Biography
Amy Davidson was born in 1969 or 1970
and grew up in
New York City. She graduated from
Hunter College High School
Hunter College High School is a secondary school located in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It is administered by Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). Hunter is publicly funded, and there i ...
, and attended
Harvard University, where she received an AB in Social Studies. Before joining ''
The New Yorker'', she lived and worked in
Germany.
Davidson Sorkin 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 and focuses on politics and international affairs. Her editing contributions to The New Yorker have won
the National Magazine Award and
the George Polk Award. Davidson Sorkin is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank
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.
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.
Subsequently, she began to publish under the name Amy Davidson Sorkin.
Davidson Sorkin's first marriage ended with the death of her husband.
Bibliography
Essays and reporting
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[Online version is titled "The Iran countdown".]
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[Online version is titled "A video isn’t enough".]
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[Title in the online table of contents is "Hillary feels the Bern".]
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[Title in the online table of contents is "Clinton and Sanders court Black voters".]
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[Online version is titled "Yet more e-mail trouble for Clinton".]
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[Online version is titled "Michelle Obama and us".]
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