BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2017 – 2018

Bruce Weber

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In a 30-year career at The New York Times, Bruce Weber was an editor at the Sunday magazine, a metro reporter, a theater columnist and critic, the paper’s first national cultural correspondent and, for the final eight years of his tenure, an obituary writer. A former fiction editor at Esquire, he was the editor of Look Who’s Talking (1986), an anthology of 20th-century American short stories. He is the author of Savion! My Life in Tap(with the dancer Savion Glover, 2000) As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires (2009), which became a New York Times bestseller, and a memoir, Life Is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America (2014). A graduate of the University of Michigan with an M.A. in American literature from Columbia, he lives in Manhattan and Orient, N.Y.