Wil S. Hylton
Wil S. Hylton | |
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Hylton at the 2014 Gaithersburg Book Festival | |
Born | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
Notable works | Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II |
Wil S. Hylton is an American journalist. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine[1] and has published cover stories for The New Yorker,[2] Rolling Stone,[3] Esquire,[4] Harper's,[5] Details, GQ,[6] New York,[7][8] Outside,[9] and many others.
Early life and education
[edit]Hylton was born in Baltimore, Maryland and attended Baltimore City College high school. He enrolled in Kenyon College for a year before being expelled.[10]
Career
[edit]Hylton began publishing articles in The Baltimore Sun as a teenager,[11] and was writing for major magazines by his early twenties.[3][12][4] In 1999 he bicycled across Cuba for Esquire,[13] climbed the Ecuadorean Andes for Details, and wrote about Hugh Hefner for Rolling Stone.[14]
At 24, Hylton was hired as a Contributing Editor at Esquire, where he wrote about the invasion of Afghanistan,[15] attempts to patent the human genome,[16] and the prosecution of alleged nuclear spy Wen Ho Lee.[17] After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hylton became a Washington Correspondent for GQ, publishing criticism of the war[18][19] and drafting articles of impeachment for Dick Cheney.[20][21] He was the first journalist to interview Joe Darby, the whistleblower at Abu Ghraib prison.[22]
Hylton was hired by The New York Times Magazine as a Contributing Writer in 2010.[1] In October 2011, Hugo Lindgren, editor of The New York Times Magazine, wrote, "By now you should know that when you see Wil's byline on a piece, it doesn't really matter what it's about. Just read it.”[23] Hylton has written for the magazine about bioterrorism,[24] the search for Air France Flight 447,[25] the influence of Breitbart News,[26] and the prosecution of police officers after the death of Freddie Gray.[27] His February 8, 2015 article about the family detention policy to imprison Central American women and children[28] was cited by a federal judge in an injunction to suspend the policy two weeks later.[29] His 2016 profile of the painter Chuck Close was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Feature Writing.[30]
In 2018, Hylton stated on The Daily that he was conducting secret interviews with the Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, who at the time was under house arrest.[31][32]
Hylton is a recipient of the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Journalism by the Medill School of Journalism[33] and his articles have been anthologized in the books "Best Political Writing," "Best Music Writing," and "Best Business Stories."[34] He is a Special Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University[35] and a member of the faculty at the MFA program in creative nonfiction at Goucher College.[36]
Personal life
[edit]Hylton lives in Baltimore; he is divorced with two children.[37]
Bibliography
[edit]- "A bug in the system : why last night's chicken made you sick". Annals of Food. The New Yorker. 90 (46): 30–35. February 2, 2015.
- "My cousin was my hero. Until the day he tried to kill me". The New York Times Magazine. May 8, 2019.
- The New York Times Magazine
- Down the Breitbart Hole
- Baltimore vs. Marilyn Mosby
- The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close
- The Land of Smoke and Fog
- The God of Small Things
- What Happened to Air France Flight 447?
- How Ready Are We for Bioterrorism?
- GQ
- Harper's
- Esquire
- The Atlantic
- Deep-Sea Mining and the Race to the Bottom of the Ocean Reposted on MSN as "History's largest mining operation is about to begin"
References
[edit]- ^ a b "The New York Times Magazine - Masthead". The New York Times. March 2011.
- ^ "Wil S. Hylton". The New Yorker.
- ^ a b "Wil S. Hylton". Rolling Stone.
- ^ a b "Wil S. Hylton". Esquire.
- ^ "Wil S. Hylton | Harper's Magazine". Harper's Magazine.
- ^ "Wil S. Hylton - Bio, latest news and articles". GQ.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (2015-11-02). "Willie Nelson's Crusade to Stop Big Pot". New York Magazine.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (2015-02-25). "American Deserter: Why AWOL U.S. Soldiers Are Most at Risk in Canada". New York Magazine.
- ^ "Search Results". Outside Online.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (8 May 2019). "My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me". The New York Times.
- ^ Woods, Baynard. "Baltimore writer Wil Hylton goes deep to solve a decades-old mystery". citypaper.com. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ "Island of Forbidden Delights". Outside Online. 2004-05-02. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ "Cuba, from Tip to Tail | Esquire | APRIL 2000".
- ^ "Inside the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner". Rolling Stone. 2000-08-30.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (2002-08-01). "Mazar I Sharif". Esquire.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (2001-06-01). "Who owns this body?". Esquire.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (2000-12-01). "Guilty". Esquire.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (2006-10-31). "The Big, Bad Wolfowitz?". GQ. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (2006-10-31). "Casualty of War". GQ. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (2007-02-14). "The People V. Richard Cheney". GQ. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ Friedersdorf, Conor (2011-08-30). "Remembering Why Americans Loathe Dick Cheney". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ Norris, Michele (2006-08-15). "Abu Ghraib Whistleblower Speaks Out". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ Lindgren, Hugo (2011-10-28). "This Sunday: Excuse Me While I Get Fitted for a Hazmat Suit". The 6th Floor Blog. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (2011-10-26). "How Ready Are We for Bioterrorism?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (2011-05-04). "What Happened to Air France Flight 447?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (2017-08-16). "Down the Breitbart Hole". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (2016-09-28). "Baltimore vs. Marilyn Mosby". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (2015-02-04). "The Shame of America's Family Detention Camps". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ "Memorandum Opinion" (PDF). ACLU.
- ^ "ELLIE AWARDS 2017 WINNERS ANNOUNCED | ASME". asme.magazine.org. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ Barbaro, Michael (2018-03-12). "Listen to 'The Daily': House Arrest in Venezuela". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ Barbaro, Michael (2018-03-13). "Listen to 'The Daily': Refusing to Stay Silent". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ "John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism". Medill Northwestern University. Archived from the original on 2013-08-27.
- ^ "Wil Hylton | HuffPost". HuffPost. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ "Wil S. Hylton, Special Lecturer | Advanced Academic Programs | Johns Hopkins University". Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ "M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction Faculty". Goucher College. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ Hylton, Wil S. (8 May 2019). "My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 May 2019.