W d wetherell biography
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- Born October 5, 1948, in Mineda, NY; son of Walter and Elizabeth (Hale) Wetherell; married Celeste Tousignant, July, 1982; children: two.
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W. D. Wetherell
American writer
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| Born | (1948-10-05) October 5, 1948 (age 76) Mineola, New York, U.S. |
| Pen name | W.D. Wetherell |
| Notable works | The Man Who Loved Levittown (1985), Chekhov's Sister (1990), A Century of November (2002), The Writing on the Wall (2012), A River Trilogy (2017) |
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W.D. Wetherell (born October 5, 1948) is an American writer of over twenty books, novels, short story collections, memoirs, essay collections, and books on travel and history. He was born in Mineola, New York, and lives in Lyme, New Hampshire.[1]
His essays, short stories, and articles have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Virginia Quarterly Review, Georgia Review, Appalachia, The Boston Globe, Reader's Digest, Fly-Fisherman, and many more. For eighteen years his essays on travel appeared frequently in The New York Times.[2] He currently writes a column on the art of writing, On Prose, which appears in the Book Page
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Walter Wetherell's fiction includes Souvenirs, The Man Who Loved Levittown, Hyannis Boat and Other Stories, Chekhov's Sister, The Wisest Man in America, Wherever that Great Heart May Be and now his newest novel, Morning. He has been the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two O Henry Awards, the Due Heinz Literature Prize and recently a fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire, with his wife and two children.
Robert Birnbaum: Tell me why you wrote this book.
Walter Wetherell: I'm not exactly sure how I got the actual inspiration for it. I think I recognized quite early that to write a novel about TV was to tackle probably the most unpromising, unliterary, anti-literary material you could possibly think of. Something about the audacity of that really appealed to me. Made me feel like it was worth thinking about. Then a couple of things plugged in pretty quickly. One, was my intellectual understanding that television was probably the greatest cultural turning point of the Twenti
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Wetherell, W.D. 1948-
(Walter David Wetherell)
PERSONAL: Born October 5, 1948, in Mineda, NY; son of Walter and Elizabeth (Hale) Wetherell; married Celeste Tousignant, July, 1982; children: two. Education: Hofstra University, B.A., 1973.
ADDRESSES: Home—P. O. Box 84, Lyme, NH 03768.
CAREER: Writer.
AWARDS, HONORS: Creative writing fellow in fiction, National Endowment for the Arts, 1982 and 1988; Dru Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985, for The Man Who Loved Levittown; National Magazine Award for fiction, 1992; Strauss Living, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1998–2003; Michigan Literary Fiction Award, 2004.
WRITINGS:
Souvenirs (novel), Random House (New York, NY), 1981.
Vermont River (essays), illustrations by Gordon Allen, Winchester Press (Piscataway, NJ), 1984.
The Man Who Loved Levittown (stories), University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1985.
Hyannis Boat, and Other Stories, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1989.
Chekhov's Sister (novel), Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1990.
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