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Timothy Noah

Timothy Robert Noah (born 1958)[1] is an American journalist, author, and a staff writer at The New Republic. Previously he was labor policy editor for Politico, a contributing writer at MSNBC.com, a senior editor of The New Republic[2][3][4] assigned to write the biweekly "TRB From Washington" column, and a senior writer at Slate, where for a decade he wrote the "Chatterbox" column. In April 2012, Noah published a book, The Great Divergence, about income inequality in the United States.

Timothy Noah

1958 (age 65–66)[1]

New York City, US

Journalist, author

(m. 1990; died 2005)
Sarah McNamer
(m. 2018)

2 (and 2 stepdaughters)

Peter Noah (brother)
Adam Levine (nephew)

Early life and education[edit]

Noah is the son of Marian Jane (née Swentor) and Robert M. Noah, a television producer.[1][5] He grew up in New Rochelle, New York, and Beverly Hills, California. His father was Jewish, and his mother was Protestant; he describes himself as an atheist.[6] He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he obtained a degree in English in 1980,[7] and where he was on the prose board of the Harvard Advocate. He lives in Washington, D.C.[8]

Personal life[edit]

In September 2018, Noah married Sarah McNamer, a medievalist and professor of English at Georgetown University.[19][20]


Noah's first wife, fellow journalist Marjorie Williams, died of cancer in 2005. After her death, Noah edited an anthology of Williams' writing, The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate.[21] The book won PEN's Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction and a National Magazine Award in the category of essays and criticism. A second Williams anthology, Reputation: Portraits in Power was published in October 2008.


Noah has two children[22] and two stepchildren. His brother is television writer/producer Peter Noah.[23] His sister, Patsy Noah, co-founded[24] the charity Your Mom Cares. Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine is his nephew.[25]

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Income Immobility in the U.S.

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Ban the Benjamins!

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The Great Divergence

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Why the Filibuster Deserves No Respect

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Celebrity Commencements

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Let Us Now 'Change' The Campaign Rhetoric

(timothynoah.com)

Author Web site

Recent articles

MSNBC articles

New Republic articles

by year

Slate articles

on Bloggingheads.tv

Video (with audio-only available) conversations with Noah

NPR appearances and commentaries

Marjorie Williams Web site

on C-SPAN

Appearances