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. His books of political reportage include The Passion of Poland; A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers; and Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas. His ?Passions and Wonders? series currently comprises Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin; David Hockney?s Cameraworks; Mr. Wilson?s Cabinet of Wonder; A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces Boggs: A Comedy of Values; Robert Irwin: Getty Garden; Vermeer in Bosnia; and Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences. Mr. 

February 13th, 1952 in Van Nuys (Age 72)