N. D. Wilson

{{short description|American author of young adult fiction (born 1978)}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = N. D. Wilson

| birth_name = Nathan David Wilson

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1978}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Idaho, U.S.

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| spouse = Heather Wilson

| occupation = Author

| genre = Young adult fiction, children's literature, apologetics

| notableworks = 100 Cupboards Trilogy
Ashtown Burials series
Leepike Ridge
Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl

| children = 5

| parent = Douglas Wilson

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Nathan David Wilson (born 1978) is an American author of young adult fiction.{{cite web | url = http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3A%22N.+D.+Wilson%22&dblist=638&fq=ap%3A%22wilson%2C+nathan+d%22&qt=facet_ap%3A | title=N. D. Wilson |access-date= 3 April 2010| publisher= WorldCat}}

Background

Wilson is the son of Reformed minister Douglas Wilson and author Nancy Wilson. He was named after the biblical figures Nathan and David,{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Douglas |author-link=Douglas Wilson (theologian)|title=Writers to Read |date=2015 |publisher=Crossway |page=137}} and was educated at Logos School.Wilson, Writers to Read, p. 139.

In sixth grade, Wilson decided that he wanted to become a writer, but he did not do any lengthy fiction writing until some years later.{{Citation | title =100 Cupboards' Writer Discusses Secret Doors and Hints at the End of the Series | year = 2009 | newspaper = Washington Post| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/12/AR2009051203336.html}} Wilson graduated from New Saint Andrews College in 1999. He studied theology through Liberty University from 1999 to 2000, and he received a master's degree in liberal arts from St. John's College in 2001.{{Citation | title = N. D. Wilson | url = https://nsa.edu/contributors/nathan-wilson | publisher = New Saint Andrews | type = faculty bio}}

During his graduate studies, Wilson began to work seriously toward writing children's fantasy. Of his first (unpublished) novel, "The Seventh Sneeze," he would later joke, "The title was the best thing about it." Wilson abandoned that project and launched a second attempt, which would ultimately become his 100 Cupboards series.

Wilson began teaching at New Saint Andrews College as an adjunct professor in 2001. In 2005, he was named a Fellow of Literature at the college. The same year, Wilson announced in Books & Culture magazine that he had made a near-duplicate of the Shroud of Turin image by exposing dark linen to the sun for ten days under a sheet of glass on which a positive mask had been painted,{{Citation | title = CT library | url = http://ctlibrary.com/bc/2005/marapr/3.22.html | year = 2005 | journal = Books & Culture}}.{{Citation | title = Shadow shroud | url = http://www.shadowshroud.com/}}. and in doing so, "caused some uproar in the Shroud of Turin world."{{Citation | title = Spokesman review | url = http://www.spokesmanreview.com/tools/story_pf.asp?ID=60247}}.

Wilson was the managing editor for Credenda/Agenda magazine. He is a Teacher at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho.{{cite web |title=Our Staff & Leadership |url=https://www.christkirk.com/our-church/leadership-staff/ |publisher=Christ Church |access-date=24 June 2024}}

Wilson is married. He and his wife Heather have five children.{{cite web|url=http://www.ndwilson.com/bio/#the_bio|title=Bio - NDW|work=ndwilson.com|access-date=7 March 2015}}

In 2017, Wilson underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor.{{cite news|last1=Ong|first1=Czarina Nicole|title=Christian Author Diagnosed With Brain Tumor Still Praises God as 'Good' and 'Faithful'|url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-author-diagnosed-with-brain-tumor-still-praises-god-as-good-and-faithful-181193/|access-date=28 June 2017|work=Christian Post|date=21 April 2017}}

In October 2020, Wilson's church, Christ Church, organized protests against a COVID-19 related mask mandate. Wilson was charged with various misdemeanors following an episode where he allegedly plastered public property with stickers that compared the town of Moscow to the Soviet Union.{{cite web|last=Cabeza|first=Garrett|date=2021-03-06|title=Months-old charges for posting stickers surface|url=https://dnews.com/local/months-old-charges-for-posting-stickers-surface/article_213a179a-876d-57b6-a21e-9844046455f0.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031115716/https://dnews.com/local/months-old-charges-for-posting-stickers-surface/article_213a179a-876d-57b6-a21e-9844046455f0.html|archive-date=2021-10-31|access-date=2021-11-02|website=Moscow-Pullman Daily News|language=en}} He called the town's actions an abuse of power. The case was still pending as of May 2022.{{cite news |title=Moscow man who posted 'Soviet Moscow' stickers found guilty |url=https://www.lmtribune.com/northwest/moscow-man-who-posted-soviet-moscow-stickers-found-guilty/article_1522d809-45e1-59e8-9476-c0fdec2ebd50.html |access-date=28 July 2024 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |date=18 May 2022}}

Books and short stories

Wilson's published works include three series and two standalone novels for young adults, as well as children's picture books and a textbook.

Wilson has written that his fiction is characterized by its creative allusions to classic literature. Leepike Ridge uses themes from The Odyssey, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and King Solomon's Mines, while the 100 Cupboards series was influenced by the King Arthur stories, both as told by Geoffrey of Monmouth and by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene, and fairy tales from Robert Kirk and Sir Walter Scott.{{Citation | url = http://ndwilson.com/blog/?p=72#more-72 | title = ND Wilson | type = World Wide Web log}}. The Ashtown Burials series includes many historical and mythological characters (including Gilgamesh), and the first book in that series, The Dragon's Tooth, refigures elements from the opening chapters of Treasure Island. Boys of Blur, meanwhile, mirrors Beowulf—despite being set in the Florida Everglades.

One of the themes that runs through Wilson's books is fatherhood, and how to deal with fatherlessness by finding fathers.Wilson, Writers to Read, p. 142.

Wilson's short fiction and prose have been published in Credenda/Agenda, the Chattahoochee Review, the Esquire napkin project,{{Citation | url = http://www.esquire.com/fiction/ESQ0207Rise | journal = Esquire | title = Fiction| date = 20 February 2007 }}. Christianity Today, and Books & Culture.

Wilson's writings have received mostly positive reviews. Kirkus Reviews said of The 100 Cupboards, "Wilson's writing is fantastical, but works with clever sentences and turns of phrase that render it more than just another rote fantasy."{{Citation | url = https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nd-wilson/100-cupboards/ | title = The 100 Cupboards | journal = Kirkus Reviews | date= 26 December 2007}}

Film

A "bookumentary" film adaptation of Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl, narrated by Wilson, was released on DVD in 2011.{{Citation | url = http://www.notesfromthetiltawhirl.com/ | title = Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl | url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110426115042/http://www.notesfromthetiltawhirl.com/ | archive-date = 2011-04-26 }}.

N.D. Wilson also wrote and filmed a movie called The River Thief. The movie was released to theaters in 2016, starring Joel Courtney.

class="wikitable sortable"
style="width:26px;"\| Year !\| Film ! width=65\| Director ! width=65\| Writer ! width=65\| Producer ! Notes
2009 \| Collision: Christopher Hitchens vs Douglas Wilson \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| {{partial\|Executive}} \| Documentary film
2010 \| Hootie \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \| Short film
2011 \| Notes from the Tilt-a-whirl \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| {{partial\|Executive}} \| Documentary film
rowspan="2"\|2014 \| Mercy Rule \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \| Directed to DVD length film
The Hound of Heaven \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \| Short film
2016 \| The River Thief \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| Feature-length film
2020 \| The Riot and the Dance \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \| Documentary film

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style="width:26px;"| Year

!| Film

! width=65| Director

! width=65| Writer

! width=65| Producer

! Notes

2009

| Collision: Christopher Hitchens vs Douglas Wilson

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Documentary film

2010

| Hootie

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Short film

2011

| Notes from the Tilt-a-whirl

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Documentary film

rowspan="2"|2014

| Mercy Rule

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Directed to DVD length film

The Hound of Heaven

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Short film

2016

| The River Thief

| {{yes}}

| Feature-length film

2020

| The Riot and the Dance

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Documentary film

Television

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style="width:26px;"\| Year !\| Film ! width=65\| Director ! width=65\| Writer ! width=65\| Producer ! Notes
2019 \| Hello Ninja \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| {{partial\|Executive}} \| Based on his children's book
2019 \| House of David \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \|

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!| Film

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2019

| Hello Ninja

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Based on his children's book

2019

| House of David

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

Bibliography

= 100 Cupboards series =

{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-link = N. D. Wilson | year = 2007 | title = 100 Cupboards | title-link = 100 Cupboards | publisher = Random House | isbn = 978-0-375-83881-1}}.
{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-mask = 3 | year = 2009 | title = Dandelion Fire | title-link = Dandelion Fire | series = 100 Cupboards | publisher = Random House | isbn = 978-0-375-83883-5}}.
{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-mask = 3 | year = 2010 | title = The Chestnut King | title-link = The Chestnut King | series = 100 Cupboards | publisher = Random House | isbn = 978-0-375-83886-6}}.
{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND |author-mask = 3 | year = 2017 | title = The Door Before | series = 100 Cupboards | publisher = Random House | isbn = 978-044-9-81677-6}}.

= Ashtown Burials series =

{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-link = N. D. Wilson | year = 2011 | title = The Dragon's Tooth | title-link = The Dragon's Tooth | series = Ashtown Burials | publisher = Random House | isbn = 978-0-375-86439-1}}.
{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-mask = 3 | year = 2012 | title = The Drowned Vault | title-link = The Drowned Vault | series = Ashtown Burials | publisher = Random House | isbn = 978-0-375-86440-7}}.
{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-mask = 3 | year = 2013 | title = Empire of Bones | title-link = Empire of Bones | series = Ashtown Burials | publisher = Random House | isbn = 978-0-375-86441-4}}.

= Outlaws of Time series =

{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-link = N. D. Wilson | year = 2016 | title = Outlaws of Time: The Legend of Sam Miracle | title-link = Outlaws of Time: The Legend of Sam Miracle | publisher = Katherine Tegen Books | isbn = 978-0-062-32726-0}}.
{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-mask = 3 | year = 2017 | title = The Song of Glory and Ghost | title-link = The Song of Glory and Ghost | series = Outlaws of Time | publisher = Katherine Tegen Books | isbn = 978-0-062-32729-1}}.
{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-mask = 3 | year = 2018 | title = The Last of the Lost Boys | series = Outlaws of Time | publisher = Katherine Tegen Books | isbn = 978-0-062-32732-1}}.

=Other children's fiction=

{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-link = N. D. Wilson | year = 2007 | title = Leepike Ridge | title-link = Leepike Ridge | publisher = Random House | isbn = 978-0-375-83873-6}}.
{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-mask = 3 | year = 2014 | title = Boys of Blur | title-link = Boys of Blur | publisher = Random House | isbn = 978-0-449-81673-8}}.

=Christian living=

{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-link = N. D. Wilson | year = 2009 | title = Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl | publisher = Thomas Nelson | isbn = 978-0-8499-2007-3}}.
{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-mask = 3 | year = 2013 | title = Death by Living | publisher = Thomas Nelson | isbn = 978-0-8499-2009-7}}.

=Parody=

{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-link = N. D. Wilson | year = 2001 | title = Right Behind: a parody of last days goofiness | series = The Upturned Table | publisher = Canon Press | isbn = 978-1-885767-87-5 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/rightbehindparod00wils }}.
{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-mask = 3 | year = 2003 | title = Supergeddon: a really big Geddon | series = The Upturned Table | publisher = Canon Press | isbn = 978-1-59128-013-2}}.

=Picture books=

{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-link = N. D. Wilson | year = 2007 | title = The Dragon and the Garden | publisher = Canon Press | isbn = 978-1-59128-044-6}}.
{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-mask = 3 | year = 2007 | title = In the Time of Noah | publisher = Canon Press | isbn = 978-1-59128-045-3}}.
{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-mask = 3 | year = 2013 | title = Hello Ninja | publisher = Canonball Books | isbn = 978-1-59128-157-3}}.
{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-mask = 3 | year = 2014 | title = Ninja Boy Goes to School | publisher = Canonball Books | isbn = 9780375865848}}.
{{Citation | last = Wilson | first = ND | author-mask = 3 | year = 2014 | title = Blah Blah Black Sheep | publisher = Canonball Books | isbn = 9781591281580}}.

=Textbooks=

{{Citation | last1 = Wilson | first1 = ND | author-link = N. D. Wilson | last2 = Wilson | first2 = Douglas | year = 2011| title = The Rhetoric Companion | publisher = Canon Press | isbn = 978-1-59128-093-4}}.

References

External links

{{Citation | title = ND Wilson | url = http://www.ndwilson.com/ | type = official website and blog}}.
{{Citation | title = Nathan D Wilson | url = http://www.nsa.edu/academics/faculty/n-d-wilson/ | publisher = New Saint Andrews | type = faculty bio}}.
{{Citation | title = A Fort Made of Books | url = http://afortmadeofbooks.blogspot.com/ | contribution = My interview with ND Wilson | contribution-url = http://afortmadeofbooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-interview-with-n-d-wilson.html |date=Feb 2009 | format = World Wide Web log }}.
{{Citation | title = Writing Style | url = http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/?page_id=183 | publisher = Pontification Ad Nauseam | type = interview | url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090518001041/http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/?page_id=183 | archive-date = 2009-05-18 }}.
{{Citation | title = N.D. Wilson | url = http://www.bookreviewsandmore.ca/2010/11/nd-wilson-author-profile.html | type = author profile | publisher = Book reviews & more |date=November 2010}}.

Category:21st-century American novelists

Category:American children's writers

Category:American fantasy writers

Category:American male novelists

Category:Calvinist and Reformed writers

Category:Living people

Category:Writers from Moscow, Idaho

Category:St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni

Category:1978 births

Category:New Saint Andrews College faculty

Category:New Saint Andrews College alumni

Category:21st-century American male writers

Category:Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches