Dorothy Wickenden

Dorothy Wickenden is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include “ The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights.”

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The Last Lighthouse Keeper in America

american chronicles · November 6, 2023

A profile of Sally Snowman, the keeper of Boston Light, on Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts, and how she is preserving maritime tradition and history. Dorothy Wickenden reports.

Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age

profiles · February 28, 2022

Sixty years after renouncing modernity, the writer is still contemplating a better way forward, Dorothy Wickenden writes.