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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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Westchester.com, April 5, 2013
...White Plains, NY. The event celebrates National Library Week and features talented authors Deidre Bair, Marie Howe and Dorothy Wickenden who will discuss their newly published books. Lifetime Arts, Inc. will receive the National Library Week...
Boulder Daily Camera, January 9, 2013
...the New Year not with a fiction selection but with a biography. It will be Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden. The will meet in the Cafe. Created by crm2877 Reviews & Comments USER REVIEWS This event currently has no reviews. Be the first to...
Glenwood Independent, November 22, 2012
...members access to additional copies of bestselling eBooks on Overdrive. The Gordon Cooper Friends (Carbondale) brought in author Dorothy Wickenden for their One Book, One Town celebration around the book “Nothing Daunted.” Our Friends have also...
EnCompass Magazine, November 9, 2012
...settlement near Steamboat Springs. In Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West , author Dorothy Wickenden chronicles the story of her grandmother and another young woman from Albany, N.Y. Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond...
New Yorker, September 24, 2012
..., William H. Seward rose to give his closing argument in a local murder case. Recently returned from Albany, where he had spent two terms as governor of New York, he had resumed his law practice in Auburn, a hundred and seventy miles west. He was...
New Yorker, September 24, 2012
..., William H. Seward rose to give his closing argument in a local murder case. Recently returned from Albany, where he had spent two terms as governor of New York, he had resumed his law practice in Auburn, a hundred and seventy miles west. He was...
New Yorker, September 24, 2012
..., William H. Seward rose to give his closing argument in a local murder case. Recently returned from Albany, where he had spent two terms as governor of New York, he had resumed his law practice in Auburn, a hundred and seventy miles west. He was...
New Yorker, May 30, 2013
...opportunity to try to change the trajectory of this relationship.” Osnos, James Surowiecki, and John Seabrook join host Dorothy Wickenden to survey the roles that hacking and cyber security play in what Osnos calls the “steady growth of colliding...
New Yorker, May 9, 2013
...this week?s Political Scene podcast, the situation is not so simple. Anderson and Dexter Filkins talk with host Dorothy Wickenden about Syria?s ongoing civil war and whether or not the United States will intervene. ?There?s also Turkoman, Kurds,...
New Yorker, May 3, 2013
...this happen? On this week’s Political Scene podcast, Stillman, James Surowiecki, and the novelist Nell Freudenberger join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the complicated elements of this most recent and fatal garment-factory disaster. You can also...
Boulder Daily Camera, January 9, 2013
...the New Year not with a fiction selection but with a biography. It will be Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden. The will meet in the Cafe. Created by crm2877 Reviews & Comments USER REVIEWS This event currently has no reviews. Be the first to...
PortalesNewsTribune, November 23, 2012
..."Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West" by Dorothy Wickenden reconstructs the story of two intrepid young women who shocked their families and friends by applying for teaching jobs in the wilds of northwestern...
PortalesNewsTribune, November 23, 2012
..."Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West" by Dorothy Wickenden reconstructs the story of two intrepid young women who shocked their families and friends by applying for teaching jobs in the wilds of northwestern...
Glenwood Independent, November 22, 2012
...members access to additional copies of bestselling eBooks on Overdrive. The Gordon Cooper Friends (Carbondale) brought in author Dorothy Wickenden for their One Book, One Town celebration around the book “Nothing Daunted.” Our Friends have also...