Lawrence Weschler
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Lawrence Weschler (born 1952) is an author of works of creative nonfiction.
A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California at 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).
Since 2001, Weschler has been the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. He taught throughout the 1990s at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
Weschler is the grandson of the composer Ernst Toch.
Bibliography
- Solidarity, Poland in the season of its passion (1982)
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- The passion of Poland, from Solidarity through the state of war (1984)
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- Shapinsky’s karma, Boggs’s bills, and other true-life tales (1990)
- Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (1995)
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- Vermeer in Bosnia (2004)
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