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Dorothy Wickenden

Dorothy Wickenden
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Dorothy Wickenden

Dorothy Wickenden has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since January 1996. She also writes for the magazine and is the moderator of its weekly podcast “The Political Scene.” She is on the faculty of The Writers’ Institute at CUNY’s Graduate Center, where she teaches a course on narrative nonfiction. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Wickenden was national affairs editor at Newsweek from 1993-1995 and before that was the longtime executive editor at The New Republic. She lives with her husband and her two daughters in Westchester, New York.

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Cleveland Live, May 11, 2012
...encounter. In its wake, missionaries, colonizers and exploiters arrived, packing all the accoutrements of Western culture. Nothing Daunted Dorothy Wickenden (Scribner, 226 pp.) $15 Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood were bored. They knew excitement...
Christian Science Monitor, May 8, 2012
...11. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey, by The Countess of Carnarvon, Broadway 12. Nothing Daunted, by Dorothy Wickenden, Scribner 13. Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall, Vintage 14. F in Exams, by Richard Benson, Chronicle 15. The Devil in the...
Christian Science Monitor, May 1, 2012
...by Christopher McDougall, Vintage 11. Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, by Dorothy Wickenden, Scribner 12. F in Exams, by Richard Benson, Chronicle 13. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay 14. To End All Wars:...
Boston Globe, April 26, 2012
...Binocular Vision) reads at 6:30 pm at the South End Library, Tremont St. at West Newton St. Dorothy Wickenden (Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store Rosalyn Hoffman (Smart...
White Plains Patch, April 25, 2012
...Public Library 100 Martine Ave, White Plains, NY When: May 6, 2012 Time: 2:00 pm–4:00 pm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor at The New Yorker and author of “Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West” (Simon &...
Washington Post, April 24, 2012
...the Loyalist exiles who fled the North American colonies after the American Revolution, . Nothing Daunted (Scribner, $15), by Dorothy Wickenden, tells the story of two plucky Victorian women one of them Wickendens grandmother who left New York society...
Westchester.com, April 24, 2012
...White Plains, NY – Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor at The New Yorker and author of “Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West” (Simon & Schuster, April 2012), will speak about...
Zimbio, April 28, 2012
...and we’re not stupid,” he told a crowd in New Hampshire. Ryan Lizza and John Cassidy join Dorothy Wickenden [...]...
Boston Globe, April 26, 2012
...Binocular Vision) reads at 6:30 pm at the South End Library, Tremont St. at West Newton St. Dorothy Wickenden (Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store Rosalyn Hoffman (Smart...
Westchester.com, April 26, 2012
...Library White Plains, NY – Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor at The New Yorker and author of “Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West” (Simon & Schuster, April 2012), will speak about...
White Plains Patch, April 25, 2012
...Public Library 100 Martine Ave, White Plains, NY When: May 6, 2012 Time: 2:00 pm–4:00 pm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor at The New Yorker and author of “Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West” (Simon &...
Washington Post, April 24, 2012
...the Loyalist exiles who fled the North American colonies after the American Revolution, . Nothing Daunted (Scribner, $15), by Dorothy Wickenden, tells the story of two plucky Victorian women one of them Wickendens grandmother who left New York society...
Westchester.com, April 24, 2012
...White Plains, NY – Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor at The New Yorker and author of “Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West” (Simon & Schuster, April 2012), will speak about...
Steamboat Pilot & Today, April 7, 2012
...scholarship fund. Looking ahead to July 6 and 7, a special barn dance will include a visit from Dorothy Wickenden, author of the best-selling book “Nothing Daunted,” a history of western Routt County based on two young women from upstate New York,...