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Former executive editor Nicholas Lemann wrote for Texas Monthly from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. His other employers have included Washington Monthly, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and the New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1999. Lemann teaches at the Columbia University School of Journalism, where he served as dean from 2003 to 2013. He also leads the publishing imprint Columbia Global Reports. He has written five books, including The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for first nonfiction in 1992.
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