Sam Tanenhaus is a historian, biographer, and journalist. Currently, he writes for Prospect. Tanenhaus was an assistant editor at The New York Times from, then a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, then editor of The New York Times Book Review. He is a visiting professor at St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto, where he virtually teaches courses on American politics and media studies. Tanenhaus's first book, "Literature Unbound," was publised in 1986. In 1997, his biography of Whittaker Chambers won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Tanenhaus received his B.A. in English from Grinnell College and his M.A. in English Literature from Yale University.