Wayne Worcester
Professor Wayne Worcester | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of New Hampshire, Columbia University |
Occupation(s) | Professor of Journalism (retired) Journalist and Magazine writer (former) |
Employer | University of Connecticut |
Known for | Teaching, Sherlock Holmes novels, Journalist writings |
Notable work | The Monster of St. Marylebone, Sweet Rewards |
Wayne Worcester is an American journalist and author born in Keene, New Hampshire in 1947. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and worked as a reporter and magazine writer. He became a journalism professor at the University of Connecticut in 1987.[1][2] He is the author of a series of Sherlock Holmes novels.
Biography
Worcester was a news reporter for the Providence Journal in Providence, Rhode Island for over a decade before he joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut as a journalism professor in 1987.[3] He reported on the theft of more than $30 million worth of valuables from safe deposit boxes in 1975; most of the valuables belonged to the Patriarca crime family.[4] He began working as a journalism professor in 1987 at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut.
Worcester has been diagnosed with narcolepsy and has been featured in national media coverage of the illness, including NBC News.[5]
Bibliography
Sherlock Holmes
- The Monster of St. Marylebone (© 1999) ISBN 0-451-19871-9
- The Jewel of Covent Garden (© 2000) ISBN 0-451-20195-7
Short stories
- "Sweet Rewards" (included in the mystery anthology And the Dying Is Easy (© 2001) ISBN 0-451-20329-1)
Non-fiction
- The Essential Researcher (©1993) ISBN 0-06-271514-3
References
- ^ "Journalist Department UConn".
- ^ Journalism & mass communication directory. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. 2004.
- ^ "Journalism Professor Turns Writing Skills to Sherlock Holmes Mystery". Advance - University of Connecticut. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ^ "Thirty-five Years Later, a Mafia Heist Still Intrigues". UConn Today. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ^ "Sleeping my life away". NBC News.