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Alexandra Schwartz
Alexandra Schwartz is a Staff Writer at The New Yorker, where she writes mainly on books and culture. She joined the magazine in 2013 as a fact-checker, and then worked as an assistant editor before turning to writing full-time in 2016. Previously, she worked at The New York Review of Books. Schwartz grew up in New York City and graduated in 2009 from Yale, where she wrote a column for the Yale Daily News and majored in English. She has lived in France, where she worked at an American-themed grocery store and helped run an arts non-profit. She writes frequently about France, and covered the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris for The New Yorker. Before joining The New Yorker, Schwartz wrote literary criticism for The Nation. She won the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing for 2014.