Paul Hendrickson

Paul Hendrickson is an American author, journalist, and professor. He is a senior lecturer and member of the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a former member of the writing staff at the Washington Post. He has been honored with two writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Lyndhurst Foundation, and Alicia Patterson Foundation. In 2003, he was the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Chicago Tribunes Heartland Prize for Sons of Mississippi A Story of Race and Its Legacy. In 2012, he was honored with a second Heartland Prize for Hemingways Boat Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 19341961. It was also a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. As of 2014, he is writing a book about Frank Lloyd Wright, supported through a fellowship with the National Endowment for the Arts.

Paul Joseph Hendrickson was born on April 29, 1944 in Fresno, California. He is the son of Joseph Paul and Rita Bernice Hendrickson. He was raised in Kankakee and Wheaton, Illinois. From ageto 21, Hendrickson attended Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity Catholic seminary in Alabama, intent on preparing for the priesthood. He attended St. Louis University, earning a Bachelors degree in English in 1967. He also earned a Masters degree in 1968 in English, with a concentration in American literature from Pennsylvania State University.

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