Gal Beckerman is an American writer and senior editor at The Atlantic. He wrote articles on Ukraine-Russia conflict, social justice in America, and the 2022 attack on Salman Rushdie. Previously, he was an editor for the New York Times Book Review.
Beckerman earned a Media Studies PhD from Columbia University with a 2021 thesis On the Incubation of Radical Ideas: A Communications History. His thesis advisors were Todd Gitlin and Michael Schudson.
Beckerman, his wife and two daughters live in Brooklyn.
Works
When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2010. The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas. Crown, New York, 2022.
References
External links
http://www.galbeckerman.com/
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) American magazine editors Biography articles needing attention The Atlantic (magazine) people The New York Times people 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American male writers Columbia University alumni Writers from Brooklyn