Alec Wilkinson
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Alec Wilkinson (born March 29, 1952)
Career
Wilkinson is the author of eleven books. His most recent book is A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age.[4] Before that, he published The Ice Balloon in 2012, an account of the Swedish visionary aeronaut S.A. Andree's attempt, in 1897, to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon.[5][6] He is also the author of "Sister Sorry," a play based on "The Confession," [7] a story of his that appeared in The New Yorker in 1993. “Sister Sorry” had its premiere at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts during their 2021 season.[8]
Before Wilkinson was a writer, he spent a year as a policeman in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, which is the subject of Midnights, a Year with the Wellfleet Police,[9] and before that he was a rock and roll musician, playing in a number of bands, including one in Berkeley, California with Tony Garnier, Bob Dylan's longtime bass player and bandleader.[citation needed]
Wilkinson began writing when he was 24, showing work to
Personal life
Wilkinson is married, has a son, and lives in New York City. He is the brother of computer scientist Leland Wilkinson.
Awards
Wilkinson's honors include a Lyndhurst Prize and a
Publications
Books
- Midnights, a Year with the Wellfleet Police. New York: Random House, 1982.
- Moonshine: a Life in Pursuit of White Liquor. New York: Knopf, 1985. ISBN 0394545877.
- Big Sugar (1989).
- The Riverkeeper (1992). ISBN 0679741348
- A Violent Act (1993). ISBN 0679749829
- My Mentor (2002). ISBN 0618382690
- Mr. Apology and other essays (2003). ISBN 0618123113
- The Happiest Man in the World (2007). ISBN 1407013114
- The protest singer : an Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. ISBN 0307272370
- The Ice Balloon (2012). ISBN 000746004X
- A Divine Language (2022). ISBN 1250168570
Articles
- "Illuminating the Brain's 'Utter Darkness'" (review of Benjamin Ehrlich, The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023, 447 pp.; and Timothy J. Jorgensen, Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life, Princeton University Press, 2021, 436 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXX, no. 2 (February 9, 2023), pp. 32, 34–35.
References
- ISBN 9780787639952. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
- ^ a b "Alec Wilkinson". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ "The Bitter Lot of Sugar Cane Workers," Phillip Gourevitch, Sunday, October 1, 1989, p. 123.
- ^ Alec Wilkinson, A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- ^ Hellman, David (March 18, 2007). "Adventurer with a Maverick Streak". SF Gate.com. Retrieved September 30, 2010.
- ^ "Lesson Learned: Don't Fly To North Pole In A Balloon". NPR.org. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
- ^ "The Confession". The New Yorker. September 27, 1993.
- ^ "Sister Sorry".
- ISBN 9781886913325.
- New York Times. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Alec Wilkinson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
External links
- Alec Wilkinson's contributor profile on The New Yorker
- Sample text from Mr. Apology and Other Essays by Alec Wilkinson.[dead link]
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