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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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Soccer Dad: A Father, a Son, and a Magic Season
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Vermont River
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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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One River More: A Celebration of Rivers and Fly Fishing
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Upland Stream: Notes on the Fishing Passion
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Hyannis Boat and Other Stories
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On Admiration: Heroes, Heroines, Role Models, and Mentors
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Where Wars Go to Die: The Forgotten Literature of World War I
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Northern New England: Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine
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Chekhov's Sister
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Hills Like White Hills: Stories
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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, MA),

Upland Stream: Notes on the Fishing Passion (essays), Little, Brown (Boston, MA),

The Wisest Man in America (novel), University Press of New England (Hanover, NH),

The Smithsonian Guides to Natural America: Northern New England—Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, photography by Les Jenshel and Diane Cook, Random House,

Wherever That Great Heart May Be: Stories, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH),

North of Now: A Celebration of Country and the Soon to Be Gone (essays), Lyons Press (New York, NY),

One River More (essays), Lyons Press,

Morning (novel), Pantheon (New York, NY),

(Editor) This American River: Five Centuries of Writing about the Connecticut, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH),

A Century of November, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI),

Contributor to periodicals, including Atlantic Monthly, Watershed, New York Times and American Short Heritage.

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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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W. D. Wetherell

American writer

W.D. Wetherell

Born	() October 5, (age&#;76) Mineola, New York, U.S.
Pen name	W.D. Wetherell
Notable works	The Man Who Loved Levittown (), Chekhov's Sister (), A Century of November (), The Writing on the Wall (), A River Trilogy ()

W.D. Wetherell (born October 5, ) 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 essays, short stories, and articles have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Virginia Quarterly Review, Georgia Review, Appalachia, The Boston Globe, Reader's Digest, Fly-Fisherman, and many more. For eighteen years his essays on travel appeared frequently in The New York Times. He currently writes a column on the art of writing, On Prose, which appears in the Book Pages every other month of The Valley News.

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.

Wetherell's awards include two NEA Creative Writing Fellowships, three O'Henry Awards for short stories, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the National Magazine Award, the Arnold Gingrich Fly-Fishing Heritage Award, The "Best Short Story" of award from the Catholic Press Association, the Michigan Literary Fiction Award, the National Magazine Award, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year Award in He was visiting scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy in In , he received the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters allowing him to