Dorothy Wickenden

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The United States

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female

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Nonfiction

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Dorothy Wickenden became the Executive Editor of The New Yorker in January 1996. She joined the magazine as Managing Editor in March 1995. She also writes for the magazine and is the moderator of its weekly podcast "The Political Scene." Wickenden is on the faculty of The Writers' Institute at CUNY's Graduate Center, where she teaches a course on narrative nonfiction.

Previously, Wickenden was National Affairs Editor at Newsweek from 1993 - 1995. Before that, she spent fifteen years at The New Republic, first as Managing Editor and later as Executive Editor. She edited “The New Republic Reader: 80 Years of Opinion and Debate” (Basic Books, 1994), an anthology of New Republic pieces. Ms. Wickenden has also written for The New Yorker, The Wall...more

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Books by Dorothy Wickenden

Average rating: 3.32 · 1,406 ratings · 425 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West 3.32 avg rating — 1,396 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The New Republic Reader: Eighty Years of Opinion and Debate 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: