He is the author of Late to the Ball (Scribner 2016), a memoir about his learning to play tennis and becoming a competitive senior player.
He is married to Barbara Mundy, an art historian and professor at Fordham University.
He joined the masthead of the New York Times in 2006, and remained an Assistant Managing Editor until 2011.
He then moved to the publishing side of the newspaper, where he worked to get the Times into the conference business and other new initiatives.
He is also the author of A Painter of Darkness (1990), a book about Leon Golub,[4] for which he received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 1991.