Wendy Walker
{{Short description|American author (born 1951)}}
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|birth_place = Manhattan, New York, U.S.
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|known_for = The Secret Service
|education = Harvard University; Teachers College, Columbia University
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Wendy Walker (born January 25, 1951) is an American writer known for her fiction and cross-genre writings. With her husband, the writer Tom La Farge, she co-founded The Writhing Society in 2009, a salon/class devoted to the exploration and invention of constraints for verbal and visual composition. They also co-founded Proteotypes, the publishing arm of the Proteus Gowanus Gallery from 2009 to 2015.{{cite web|publisher=Independent|date=1933-07-23|title=Off the Shelf: A rose is a man is a rose: Adrian Dannatt on Wendy Walker's The Secret Service|author=Adrian Dannatt|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/off-the-shelf-a-rose-is-a-man-is-a-rose-adrian-dannatt-on-wendy-walker-s-the-secret-service-1486844.html|access-date=2024-04-02}}{{cite web|publisher=Kirkus Reviews|date=1988-09-15|title=The Sea-Rabbit, or, The Artist of Life|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/wendy-walker-2/the-sea-rabbit-or-the-artist-of-life/|access-date=2024-04-02}}{{cite web|publisher=The Endless Bookshelf|date=2009-10-28|title=Blue Fire by Wendy Walker|url=https://endlessbookshelf.net/archive0409.html#BlueFire|access-date=2024-04-02}}{{cite web|publisher=The Collidescope|date=2019-07-28|title=The Sea-Rabbit by Wendy Walker|author=George Salis|url=https://thecollidescope.com/2019/07/28/the-sea-rabbit-by-wendy-walker/|access-date=2024-04-02}}{{cite web|publisher=The Collidescope|date=2022-08-07|title=The Heart’s-Blood of Story: An Unfinished Interview with Tom La Farge|author=George Salis|url=https://thecollidescope.com/2022/08/07/the-hearts-blood-of-story-an-unfinished-interview-with-tom-la-farge/|access-date=2024-04-02}}
Early life and education
Walker was born in Manhattan, New York City. She graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in History of Art in 1972, and from Teachers College, Columbia University with a M.A. in Art and Education in 1974.{{cite book|publisher=Harvard University|date=2023-09-13|title=Radcliffe College Oral History Project: Interview with Wendy Walker|author=Corinne Bain}}{{cite web|publisher=The Collidescope|date=2020-04-26|title=Tree People or Sea People: A Rare Interview with Wendy Walker|author=George Salis|url=https://thecollidescope.com/2020/04/26/tree-people-or-sea-people-an-interview-with-wendy-walker/|access-date=2024-04-02}}{{cite web|publisher=The Collidescope|date=2020-04-12|title=The Secret Service by Wendy Walker|author=George Salis|url=https://thecollidescope.com/2020/04/12/the-secret-service-by-wendy-walker/|access-date=2024-04-02}}{{cite web|publisher=3:AM Magazine|date=2015-11-04|title=Art, Writing, and the Untellable: Douglas Messerli interviews Wendy Walker|author=Douglas Messerli|url=https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/art-writing-and-the-untellable-douglas-messerli-interviews-wendy-walker/|access-date=2024-04-04}}
Books
=Novels=
- The Secret Service (Sun & Moon Press, 1992; reprinted by Tough Poets, 2021)
=Short Stories=
- The Sea-Rabbit: Or, the Artist of Life (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1988)
- Stories Out of Omarie (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1995; reprinted by Green Integer, 2024)
- Knots (Aqueduct Press, 2006)
=Poetry=
- Sexual Stealing (Temporary Culture, 2021)
=Art=
- The Camperdown Elm (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017)
=Cross-Genre=
- Blue Fire (Proteotypes, 2009)
- Hysterical Operators (Proteotypes, 2010)
- My Man and Other Critical Fictions (Temporary Culture, 2011)
References
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External links
- [https://www.wendywalker.com Wendy Walker's website]
- [https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/art-writing-and-the-untellable-douglas-messerli-interviews-wendy-walker An Interview with Wendy Walker by Douglas Messerli]
- [https://writhingsociety.blogspot.com The Writhing Society website]
- [https://www.proteotypes.org Proteotypes website]
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Category:20th-century American writers
Category:American women writers
Category:American women novelists
Category:Writers from Manhattan