page_title: Nicholas Lemann
hierarchical_section_title: Nicholas Lemann
caption_attribution_description: English: Nicholas Lemann at the 2006 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States. Lemann won the 1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for his book The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America.
context_page_description: Nicholas Berthelot Lemann is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999.
context_section_description: Nicholas Berthelot Lemann is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999.
caption: Lemann at the 2006 Texas Book Festival
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