Serge Schmemann | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1945-04-12)April 12, 1945 (age 80) |
| Education | Harvard University (AB) Columbia University (MA) |
| Occupations | Writer and editorial page editor |
| Parent | Alexander Schmemann |
Serge Schmemann (born April 12, 1945) is a French-born Americanwriter and member of the editorial board ofThe New York Times. He specializes in international affairs.[1] He was editorial page editor of theParis-basedInternational Herald Tribune, the erstwhile global edition ofThe New York Times, from 2003 until its dissolution in 2013. Earlier he worked for theAssociated Press and was a bureau chief and editor forThe New York Times.[2]
Serge Schmemann was born inFrance toAlexander Schmemann and Juliana Ossorguine. Through his mother, he is a descendant ofJuliana of Lazarevo, a Russian Orthodox Saint.[3] He moved to the United States in 1951. Serge grew up speaking Russian at home, but visited his ancestral homeland for the first time only in 1980 when he arrived with his family as aMoscow correspondent for the Associated Press. It was not until 1990 that the Soviet authorities allowed him to visit his grandparents' home village nearKaluga. His reflections on the village's changing fate provided the subject matter for his memoirs, published in 1997.[4]
A 1963 graduate of theKent School in Kent, CT, he received his undergraduate degree in English fromHarvard University in 1967 and anM.A. inSlavic studies fromColumbia University in 1971.[5]
Writing forThe New York Times, he won thePulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1991 for his coverage of theGerman reunification,[2] which he also made the subject of a book.[6] The September 12, 2001,New York Times featured a front-page article by Schmemann about theSeptember 11 attacks.[7] He won anEmmy Award (Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing) in 2003 for theDiscovery Channel documentaryMortal Enemies.[2]
Schmemann has three children and lives in the District of Columbia.
