Nicholas Lemann

C. Geordie Wood

Nicholas Lemann is a professor and dean emeritus at the Columbia Journalism School. He is the author of "The Promised Land," "The Big Test," "Redemption," and "Transaction Man." A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999, he lives in New York. His newest book is the memoir "

Books:

Returning

A Search for Home Across Three Centuries
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Liveright Publishing Corporation
March 2026
ISBN 9781631498411
448 pages

The Promised Land

The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
History / Biography
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
March 1992
ISBN 9780679733478
416 pages