Wayne L. Wilson

Infobox Writer
name = Wayne L Wilson


caption = Wayne L Wilson
birthdate = Birth date and age|1953|12|15
birthplace = Los Angeles, California, United States

Wayne L Wilson (born December 15, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an African American author, writer, and screenwriter. Born to a homicide detective and executive secretary. He received a Master of Arts in Education with a specialization in the Sociology and Anthropology of Education from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Wayne L. Wilson's debut novel, "Soul Eyes", was rewarded with a three-book contract and published in October 2005 by Genesis Press and distributed by Kensington Publishing Corp. It launched the publisher's newest imprint Obsidian Fantasy Imprint. Accompanied by excellent reviews, the book was nominated by the publisher for a NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Literary Work." Wilson is now writing his second novel with the working title, Spirits in the Dark.

Wilson has written over 200 (short & long) biographies for educational publications including interviews with such notables as Jose Feliciano (Musician/Singer), Gregory Nava (Filmmaker), Rudolfo Anaya (writer), Tommy Nunez (former NBA referee), Cruz Miguel Bustamante (45th Lieutenant Governor of California, Former Speaker of the State Assembly), Bill Meléndez (Animator/Producer -- did the animation for Charles M. Schulz' "Peanuts characters and TV shows), George Lopez (comedian/actor), Emanuel Nunez (High profile CAA agent), Jorge Ramos (Emmy award winning Journalist, Anchorman for Universion News, best-selling author), Soledad O'Brien (TV News Anchor) and many more. These interviews can be found in, "Encuentros: Hombre A Hombre", "Careers in Publishing and Communications", and "Careers in Entertainment".

Wilson is a screenwriter and a member of the Writers Guild of America. His first screenplay, The Ghostwriter, was optioned twice including by Magic Johnson Entertainment. After reading Wilson's first screenplay, former chairman and chief executive officer of Universal Pictures, Casey Silver, hired Wilson, through his production company, to co-write a treatment and original screenplay for Universal. The screenplay, a musical, entitled Ryan and Angela centers on a high school interracial love affair in South Boston. Wilson is currently at work on his fourth original screenplay.

Recently, Wilson served as a contributing writer for the African American National Biography (AANB), a joint project of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press. The unprecedented and extensive dictionary was published February 2008. Wilson's newest short story, "The Messenger" will be published in an anthology book called "The Darker Mask" in August 2008.

Sources

* [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~du_bois/ African American National Biography]
* [http://www.us.oup.com/chosencountry/us Oxford University Press]

External links

* [http://www.waynelwilson.net Official website]