Paul Hendrickson, author portrait
© Ceil Hendrickson

Paul Hendrickson

PAUL HENDRICKSON is a three-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a winner in 2003 for his book Sons of Mississippi. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War was a 1996 finalist for the National Book Award. Hemingway’s Boat was a New York Times best seller and also a best seller in the UK. He has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. Since 1998, he has been on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and for two decades before that, he was a staff writer at The Washington Post. He lives with his wife, Cecilia, a retired nurse, outside Philadelphia and in Washington, DC.
Fighting the Night
Plagued by Fire
Because Our Fathers Lied
Hemingway's Student
Hemingway's Boat
Sons of Mississippi
The Living and the Dead

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Fighting the Night
Plagued by Fire
Because Our Fathers Lied
Hemingway's Student
Hemingway's Boat
Sons of Mississippi
The Living and the Dead

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