Tim Wendel

Tim Wendel is an award-winning novelist and journalist. His books include CASTRO'S CURVEBALL, a novel set in Old Havana about a pitcher that might have been, and FAR FROM HOME, from National Geographic Books.

This fall, RED RAIN, a novel set in World War II about the Japanese fire balloons, was published by Writer's Lair Books.
Also in '08, a limited edition about the Buffalo Braves' basketball team, BUFFALO, HOME OF THE BRAVES, will be released by Sun Bear Press.

Two years ago, Tim co-authored THE SNOW THAT BURNED OUR HEARTS, which was the runner-up in the Good Morning America/Simon & Schuster "The Story of My Life" memoir contest.

His stories have appeared in The Potomac Review and Gargoyle, while his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Weekend, Esquire, Washingtonian and GQ. His columns appear on the USA Today op-ed page, where he is on the Board of Contributors.

Tim teaches fiction and nonfiction writing at Johns Hopkins University, where he was honored with the 2004 Professional Achievement Award. He is a Walter Dakin Fellow and Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writing Conference and a Pen/Faulkner visiting writer to the Washington, D.C. Public Schools. He received his master's in writing from Johns Hopkins and a bachelor's degree in magazine journalism from Syracuse University.

Born in Philadelphia, he was raised in Lockport, N.Y. One of his first jobs was writing music reviews for The Buffalo Courier-Express. Since then he's worked on both coasts and in between, covering everything from the Olympics to the America's Cup.

He lives in northern Virginia with his wife, Jacqueline, and their two children.