| Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
| Wayne Worcester | |
| Birth Date: | 5 September 1947 |
| Birth Place: | Keene, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Education: | University of New Hampshire, Columbia University |
| Occupation: | Professor of Journalism (retired) Journalist and Magazine writer (former) |
| Employer: | University of Connecticut |
| Known For: | Teaching, Sherlock Holmes novels, Journalist writings |
| Notable Works: | The Monster of St. Marylebone, Sweet Rewards |
Wayne Worcester (born 1947) is an American journalist and author born in Keene, New Hampshire in 1947. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and worked as a reporter and magazine writer. He became a journalism professor at the University of Connecticut in 1987.[1] [2] He is the author of a series of Sherlock Holmes novels.
Worcester was a news reporter for the Providence Journal in Providence, Rhode Island for over a decade before he joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut as a journalism professor in 1987.[3] He reported on the theft of more than $30 million worth of valuables from safe deposit boxes in 1975; most of the valuables belonged to the Patriarca crime family.[4] He began working as a journalism professor in 1987 at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut.
Worcester has been diagnosed with narcolepsy and has been featured in national media coverage of the illness, including NBC News.[5]