J. Dudley Clendinen

J. Dudley Clendinen, a nationally known author, newsman, editorialist, essayist, and freelancer, joins the Writing Program's faculty in Spring 2009 as a visiting writer. Clendinen will teach a Nonfiction Workshop at the Homewood Campus in Baltimore, where he now lives. A former national correspondent and editorial writer for The New York Times, Clendinen's articles have appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, CQ, Men's Health, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. He is the author of A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America (Viking, 2008) and co-author, with Adam Nagourney, of Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America (Simon & Schuster, 1999.) He also authored the text for a 1988 book, Homeless in America, and he edited a book of essays on the South the same year. Clendinen's writing has been widely anthologized, and he has appeared on dozens of radio and TV shows, including "The Charlie Rose Show," "Good Morning America," and NPR's "All Things Considered." He has lectured at the Neiman Center and Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at Johns Hopkins, West Virginia University, Towson University, and elsewhere. He has a B.A. in history from Vanderbilt University.

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