Sam Tanenhaus has been named editor of the New York Times Book Review. “Before joining Vanity Fair in 1999, Tanenhaus was an assistant editor for the Times’ Op-Ed pages. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1998 for his biography “Whittaker Chambers” (Random House), about a key figure in the Alger Hiss spy trial. The book won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. Tanenhaus has a master’s degree in English literature from Yale University.”