Serge Schmemann

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Serge Schmemann (born April 12, 1945) is a writer and Editorial Page Editor of the International Herald Tribune. Earlier in his career, he worked for the Associated Press and was a bureau chief and editor for the New York Times.

Biography

Born in France the son of Alexander Schmemann, he grew up speaking Russian at home. However, he visited his ancestral homeland for the first time only in 1980 when he arrived with his family as Moscow correspondent for the Associated Press. It was not until 1990 that the Soviet authorities allowed him to visit his grandparents' home village near Kaluga. His reflections on the changing fate of the village made up his 1997 memoirs "Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village".

Writing for "The New York Times", he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1991 for his coverage of the reunification of Germany. The September 12, 2001 New York Times features a front page article written by Schmemann about the 9/11 attacks. He won an Emmy Award (Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing) in 2003 for the Discovery Channel documentary "Mortal Enemies".

Schmemann has three children and lives in Paris.

Bibliography

* cite book
last = Schmemann
first = Serge
title = When the Wall Came Down: The Berlin Wall and the Fall of Soviet Communism
publisher = Kingfisher
series = New York Times Books
origyear = 2006
year = 2007
oclc = 61303439
isbn = 978-0753461532
* cite book
last = Schmemann
first = Serge
title = Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village
publisher = Vintage
year = 1999
oclc = 36074523
isbn = 978-0679757078

External links

[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E6D81238F931A2575AC0A9679C8B63 "U.S. ATTACKED; President Vows to Exact Punishment for 'Evil'" by Serge Schmemann. New York Times Sept. 12, 2001]