Awards & Winners

Lawrence Weschler

Date of Birth 13-February-1952
Place of Birth Van Nuys
(California, Los Angeles, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Journalist, Author
Lawrence Weschler is an author of works of creative nonfiction. A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz, Weschler was for over twenty years a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Awards—for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992—and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award. Beginning in 1999, his "Convergences" essays appeared regularly in McSweeney's Quarterly; a collection of these essays, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, was published in 2006 and received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. From 2001 - 2013, Weschler was the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. He taught throughout the 1990s at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. In 2003, Weschler organized and edited a pilot issue of Omnivore, a prospective periodical described by Steven Heller as a "biannual magazine of writing and visual culture from The New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University." As of 2007, no subsequent issues of Omnivore have been published.

Awards by Lawrence Weschler

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lawrence Weschler.

2006


National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Honored for : Everything That Rises

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Everything That Rises

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder