| About Paul Willcott |
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Willcott is a lapsed Texan with four degrees from the University of Texas, including a Ph.D. in foreign language education and a law degree. He has studied a number of languages, including four varieties of Arabic. He is an experienced magazine writer (Texas Monthly, Runner's World, and others), editor and publisher (Boulange: The Baker's Newsletter), newspaper columnist (Austin American-Statesman), and scholar ("Randall Jarrell's Eschatological Vision," for example). He is a regular contributor of commentaries and other material to North Country Public Radio, which broadcasts to northern New York, western Vermont, and southern Ontario. His work can be heard here. In 2007 his radio play, A Franklin Manor Christmas, performed by Pendragon Theatre in Saranac Lake, NY was broadcast on North Country Public Radio. He has lived in Baghdad, Amman, Tehran, London, Hong Kong, Zurich, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. He now divides his time between Zurich, Manhattan, and the village of Saranac Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, where he and his wife are renovating a building that was formerly a monastery and before that a tuberculosis sanatorium. |