Short stories by w d wetherell biography

  • 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.
  • Wetherell was born on Long Island, New York, in He is the author of more than 20 short story collections, essay collections, nonfiction works, and novels.
  • He has won the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction three times ("The Man Who Loved Levittown," ; "If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood," ; ".
  • Wetherell, W.D.

    (Walter David Wetherell)

    PERSONAL: Born October 5, , in Mineda, NY; son of Walter and Elizabeth (Hale) Wetherell; married Celeste Tousignant, July, ; children: two. Education: Hofstra University, B.A.,

    ADDRESSES: Home—P. O. Box 84, Lyme, NH

    CAREER: Writer.

    AWARDS, HONORS: Creative writing fellow in fiction, National Endowment for the Arts, and ; Dru Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction, University of Pittsburgh Press, , for The Man Who Loved Levittown; National Magazine Award for fiction, ; Strauss Living, American Academy of Arts and Letters, –; Michigan Literary Fiction Award,

    WRITINGS:

    Souvenirs (novel), Random House (New York, NY),

    Vermont River (essays), illustrations by Gordon Allen, Winchester Press (Piscataway, NJ),

    The Man Who Loved Levittown (stories), University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA),

    Hyannis Boat, and Other Stories, Little, Brown (Boston, MA),

    Chekhov's Sister (novel), Little, Brown (Boston, M

    W. D. Wetherell is a noted author best known for his novels, short stories, and nonfiction books on fly fishing and New England. His short stories have been published in the New England Review, the Kenyon Review, and other collections, and he has frequently contributed to The New York Times. 

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  • Books by W.D. Wetherell

    A Century of November
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    The Writing on the Wall
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    The Bass, the River and Sheila Mant
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    The Man Who Loved Levittown
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    Morning: A novel
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    Yellowstone Autumn: A Season of Discovery in a Wondrous Land
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    North of Now: A Celebration of Country and the Soon to be Gone
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