W.D. Wetherell

W. D. Wetherell, born and raised in Garden City, New Jersey, graduated from Hofstra University on Long Island NY. He has won the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction three times ("The Man Who Loved Levittown," 1979; "If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood," 1981; "Watching Girls Play," 1999) and has published several volumes of short fiction: His iconic story "The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant" is often anthologized. In addition, Wetherell has published several novels, including "Souvenirs" (1981), "Chekhov's Sister" (1990), "The Wisest Man in America" (1995)s and his recent "A Century of Novembers," soon to be released as a movie. In his early years, two National Endowment of the Humanities grants, in 1982 and 1987, enabled him to continue his writing career without concern for income - and Mr. Wetherell has also recently received a grant from the American Academy of the Arts. In his personal life, he is the author of several articles published in the New York Times, including one about his sadness at the passing of the time that his children travelled with him and his wife, which contained some details of his closely-guarded family life. His publisher's Wetherell webpage states that he "has made his home for a number of years in Lyme Center, New Hampshire, not far from Hanover and Dartmouth College." It also states that "Wetherell's lifelong avocation is fly-fishing, and he has three volumes on the subject."