William Wiegand

Born: 06/11/1928   Detroit , MI
Died: 02/29/2016
Parents: Jack J. Wiegand; Kathryn Wiegand
Spouse: Cary Stone
Address(es):
Last Known
Menlo Park , CA

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Chester A. Arthur Conspiracy: a novel
- Spoof After assassinating Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth escapes to the home of a Confederate Virginia family where he falls in love with Nell, the wife of future president Chester A. Arthur and later becomes part of a plan to impersonate the president himself.
Fiction Adult New York : Dial Press 1983
Student's Choice : An Anthology of Short Stories
- Editor with Richard Kraus
Fiction Adult Columbus, Ohio, Merrill 1970
The School of Soft Knocks Fiction Adult Philadelphia, Lippincott 1968
The Treatment Man
- The "treatment man" is the head psychologist, Howard Pryor, at the Southern State Penitentiary at Creighton- called the best run prison in the U.S. until a dramatic and extended riot catapulted the penitentiary and Pryor into the headlines. (Jackson Prison riot in 1952)
Fiction , Michigan Adult New York, McGraw-Hill 1959
At Last, Mr. Tolliver
- Won the Rinehart Mystery Prize
Fiction , Mystery Adult New York : Holt, Rinehart 1950
Other writings:
- Contributor of short stories and articles to Story, New Republic, New Leader and literary reviews

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Awards:

Name Date
Joseph Henry Jackson Award for The Treatment Man 1958
Mary Roberts Rinehart Award for At Last, Mr. Tolliver
Hopwood Award
- Received 5 Prizes as a student at the University of Michigan
Phi Beta Kappa

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Michigan Authors, 3rd edition 1993
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Michigan Authors, 2nd ed. 1980
Michigan in Fiction
- Michigan Department of Education
1976
Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers
Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers
Writers Directory

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Stanford University Stanford , CA 1960
Master of Arts (A.M.) University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI 1950
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI 1945

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Assistant Professor to Professor of English and Creative Writing San Francisco State University San Francisco , CA 1962
Briggs Copland Instructor in English Harvard University Cambridge 1960 -1962
Teaching Fellow University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI 1955

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