Adam Gopnik has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987. During his three decades at the magazine, he has written fiction, humor, memoirs, critical essays, and reported pieces from at home and abroad. His many books include "The Table Comes First", "Paris To The Moon","Through The Children's Gate " and , most recently, " At The Strangers' Gate." A musical , written in collaboration with the composer David Shire, " The Most Beautiful Room In New York" , opened last May at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, and his one man show "The Gates" , based on material developed with The Moth, played for a sold out week at New York's Public Theater in January.