Lawrence Weschler

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 ...