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Wil S. Hylton
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
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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
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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
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Hylton lives in Baltimore; he is divorced with two children.[37]
Bibliography
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The New York Times Magazine
GQ
Harper's
Esquire
The Atlantic
References
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^ 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 .
External links
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R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wil_S._Hylton&oldid=1233171716 "
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