Serge Schmemann
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.
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.
Schmemann and his wife Mary have three children.
*http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/faculty/schmemann.asp Columbia University faculty page
