Will Blythe
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Will Blythe is a magazine writer and book author living in New York City. He is the editor of Byliner.com, a former literary editor at Esquire magazine, and a contributing editor for Harper's and Mirabella.[1] He writes for many other periodicals, including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Elle, and the Oxford American.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Blythe was born in 1957 in North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Career
[edit]His short story "The Taming Power of the Small" was anthologized in the Best American Short Stories for 1988 and adapted into a 1995 short film starring David Morse and Treat Williams. Blythe's 2006 book, To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever, follows the author through a season rooting for his beloved University of North Carolina Tar Heels basketball team and examining his hatred of the school's rival, Duke University (see Carolina-Duke rivalry). The New York Times describes Blythe thus: "... he writes amusingly, self-deprecatingly and often beautifully. {...} Fans of college basketball will wish that all sportswriters possessed Blythe's ability to describe a game, to translate its tension and render its action."[3] Blythe is also the editor of Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction, published in 1999, and co-editor of Lust, Violence, Sin, Magic: Sixty Years of Esquire Fiction, published in 1993. He writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review.
References
[edit]- ↑ Blythe, Will. "Author: Will Blythe". Our State. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
- ↑ The Authors. Will Blythe 2008.
- ↑ Foer, Franklin. Tobacco Road Rage. The New York Times, April 2, 2006.
