Amy WilentzProfessor of English |
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Research Interests |
Formal mechanisms of literary journalism; travel journalism as a literary form; Explanatory journalism; role of journalism for the everyday reader | |
| URL | www.amywilentz.com | |
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Research Abstract |
Amy Wilentz is the author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier (1989), Martyrs' Crossing (2000), and I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger (2006). She edited and translated The Parish of the Poor (Orbis Books 1990), a collection of the writings of Haitian President and political leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide. She contributed the leading essay to the book Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary (Harper, 2008). Wilentz is the winner of the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, and also a 1990 nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles, Time magazine, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Harper’s, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Reconstruction, Travel & Leisure, The San Francisco Chronicle, More, The Village Voice, The London Review of Books and many other publications. She is the former Jerusalem correspondent of The New Yorker and a long-time contributing editor at The Nation. | |
| Publications |
At work on a novel; working title: Our Beautiful Jennie Running in the Ruins, The New Yorker, September 4, 2010 The Rainy Season: Haiti -Then and Now, Simon & Schuster, reissue with new introduction, April, 2010 Love and Haiti, Conde Nast Traveler, September, 2009 Mr. Los Angeles: Samuel Johnson, Los Angeles Times, June 7, 2009 Suddenly Susan, Los Angeles Times, April, 2009 Married to the Candidate, review of Michelle, Washington Post, October 5, 2008 Who's Afraid of Jimmy Carter, New York Magazine, July 28, 2008 Provence Profound, New York Times, May 18, 2008 When the Hills are Burning, Washington Post October 25, 2007 |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5348 | |
| Last updated | 08/25/2010 | |