Lawrence Weschler - University of California, Santa Cruz,George Polk Awards,Sarah Lawrence College

Lawrence Weschler (born 1952) is an author of works of creative nonfiction.A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981 2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Awards for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992 and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award (1998). Beginning in 1999, his "Convergences" essays appeared regularly in McSweeney's Quarterly; a collection of these essays, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, was published in 2006 and received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

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• Assisted by: Proteus Val Re Kresten (Editor), Proteus Valère Kresten (Editor)
• Publisher: Betascript Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.2012
• EAN: 9786137974278
• ISBN: 9786137974278
• No. of pages: 92
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric