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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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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.
Upland Stream: 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 W.D. Wetherell (born 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. His autobiographical short story, "The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant," telling the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who must choose between the girl of his dreams and the fish of his dreams, has been anthologized over twenty times, and appears in many textbooks for middle school, high school, and college English. Copyright ©raldock.pages.dev 2025•
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