- William Langewiesche
William Langewiesche (pronounced:long-gah-vee-shuhCite news | url =http://cjrarchives.org/issues/2002/6/mag-sherman.asp | title = What makes a serious magazine soar? | work =
Columbia Journalism Review | author = Scott Sherman | date = 2002 | accessdate = 2007-08-18] ) is an Americanauthor andjournalist , and was a professional airplane pilot for many years. He is currently the international correspondent for the magazine "Vanity Fair", but made his name as a national correspondent for "The Atlantic Monthly " magazine. He has written articles covering events such as the World Trade Center cleanup, a three-part series which was published as the book "American Ground". He also detailed the last flight of the shuttle Columbia.He is the son of
Wolfgang Langewiesche , author of "Stick and Rudder ".Langewiesche was a finalist for the 2004 Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage for "American Ground. Unbuilding the World Trade Center" and 2005 for "The Outlaw Sea".
Langewiesche is currently residing in France. As of Spring 2006, both he and managing editor
Cullen Murphy left "The Atlantic" for "Vanity Fair". [http://www.gawker.com/news/jobs/atlantic-loss-is-conde-gain-langewiesche-and-murphy-to-vf-161360.php]References
Partial bibliography
*cite book | author=Langewiesche, William | title=
The Atomic Bazaar : The Rise of the Nuclear Poor | location=New York | publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux | year=2007 | id=ISBN 0374106789 [http://us.macmillan.com/theatomicbazaar]
*"Hotel Baghdad : Fear and Lodging in Iraq" (2005) [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200505/langewiesche]
*cite book | author=Langewiesche, William | title=The Outlaw Sea : A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime | location=New York | publisher=North Point Press | year=2004 | id=ISBN 0-86547-581-4
*cite book | author=Langewiesche, William | title=American Ground : Unbuilding the World Trade Center | location=New York | publisher=North Point Press | year=2002 | id=ISBN 0-86547-582-2
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*cite book | author=Langewiesche, William | title=Sahara Unveiled : A Journey Across the Desert | location=New York | publisher=Pantheon Books | year=1996 | id=ISBN 0-679-42982-4
*cite book | author=Langewiesche, William | title=Cutting for Sign | location=New York | publisher=Pantheon Books | year=1994 | id=ISBN 0679411135External links
* [http://us.macmillan.com/author/williamlangewiesche William Langewiesche at FSG]
* [http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/langew/wlbio.htm William Langewiesche biosketch at the "Atlantic Monthly" website]
* [http://www.lettre-ulysses-award.org/authors05/langewiesche.html William Langewiesche] Ulysses Award bio
* [http://chiasmos.uchicago.edu/events/langewiesche.shtml Audio/video recordings] of William Langewiesche discussing his book "The Nuclear Poor"; from the University of Chicago's [http://internationalstudies.uchicago.edu/wbh.shtml World Beyond the Headlines series]Interviews
* [http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=86805 Video interview with Stephen Colbert ]
May 14 2007
* [http://www.laweekly.com/art+books/books/william-langewiesche-on-the-atomic-bazaar-and-facing-our-worst-fear/16875 The Eventualist: William Langewiesche on "The Atomic Bazaar" and Facing our Worst Fear, by Nancy Rommelmann]July 25 2007
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