Nicholas Lemann - Definition and Overview

Nicholas Lemann graduated from Harvard University in 1976. He is an influential author of several books on 20th century United States history:

• The Big Test (1999) (The story of how standardized tests (such as the SAT) became very important in the United States)
• The Promised Land : The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991) (The story of how the migration of millions of black people from the South to the North in the 1940s and 1950s affected the United States.

He has also been:

• Managing editor of the Washington Monthly
• associate editor and executive editor of the Texas Monthly
• a national staff reporter for The Washington Post
• a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly
• a staff writer for The New Yorker

He is currently the dean, and the Henry R. Luce professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.