Alec Wilkinson
Alec Wilkinson, a staff writer, is the author of ten books, including “ The Protest Singer ” and “ The Ice Balloon.”
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a reporter at large ·
What does a recently found photo album reveal?
profiles ·
Alec Wilkinson’s 2002 Profile of the singer, who regards writing songs as the effort to find form for sounds he hears in his head.
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Don Paradis, member of the West Coast biker gang called the Gypsy Jokers, who was sentenced to death in Idaho after a double …
a reporter at large ·
Alec Wilkinson interviews one of America’s most notorious killers, John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted, in 1980, of murdering thirty-three boys.
annals of friendship ·
Back in nineteen-forties Brooklyn, Alec Wilkinson writes, the media personality Larry King and the author Herb Cohen found fame in a junior-high-school stunt.
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about victims of a blindness apparently incurred during the Cambodian Holocaust as a psychological disfigurement. Writer tells about …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about Admiralty Island in southeast Alaska. An Indian frontier town called Angoon is the only town there. Most of its 630 inhabitants are…
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about harvesting sugarcane in south Florida. The cutters are almost all West Indians; most are Jamaicans & they are badly treated. In the…
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the cultivation of sugarcane in south Florida. Most of it is harvested by hand by men from the West Indies who live in barracks on …
profiles ·
A PROFILE of riverkeeper John Cronin, who works for the Hudson River Fishermen's Association, patrolling the river in search of polluters... Cronin …
profiles ·
PROFILE of revenue agent Garland Bunting, 59. For more than 30 years he has been engaged in capturing & prosecuting men & women in North Carolina who make …