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Wil S. Hylton
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Wil S. Hylton is an American journalist. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine[1] and has published cover stories for The New Yorker,[2] Rolling Stone,[3] Esquire,[4] Harper's,[5] Details, GQ,[6] New York,[7] [8] Outside,[9] and many others.

Early life and education

Hylton was born in Baltimore, Maryland and attended Baltimore City College high school. He enrolled in Kenyon College for a year before being expelled.[10]

Career

Hylton began publishing articles in The Baltimore Sun as a teenager,[11] and was writing for major magazines by his early twenties.[3] [12] [4] In 1999 he bicycled across Cuba for Esquire,[13] climbed the Ecuadorean Andes for Details, and wrote about Hugh Hefner for Rolling Stone.[14]

At 24, Hylton was hired as a Contributing Editor at Esquire, where he wrote about the invasion of Afghanistan,[15] attempts to patent the human genome,[16] and the prosecution of alleged nuclear spy Wen Ho Lee.[17] After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hylton became a Washington Correspondent for GQ, publishing criticism of the war[18] [19] and drafting articles of impeachment for Dick Cheney.[20] [21] He was the first journalist to interview Joe Darby, the whistleblower at Abu Ghraib prison.[22]

Hylton was hired by The New York Times Magazine as a Contributing Writer in 2010.[1] In October 2011, Hugo Lindgren, editor of The New York Times Magazine, wrote, "By now you should know that when you see Wil's byline on a piece, it doesn't really matter what it's about. Just read it.”[23] Hylton has written for the magazine about bioterrorism,[24] the search for Air France Flight 447,[25] the influence of Breitbart News,[26] and the prosecution of police officers after the death of Freddie Gray.[27] His February 8, 2015 article about the family detention policy to imprison Central American women and children[28] was cited by a federal judge in an injunction to suspend the policy two weeks later.[29] His 2016 profile of the painter Chuck Close was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Feature Writing.[30]

In 2018, Hylton stated on The Daily that he was conducting secret interviews with the Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, who at the time was under house arrest.[31] [32]

Hylton is a recipient of the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Journalism by the Medill School of Journalism[33] and his articles have been anthologized in the books "Best Political Writing," "Best Music Writing," and "Best Business Stories."[34] He is a Special Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University[35] and a member of the faculty at the MFA program in creative nonfiction at Goucher College.[36]

Personal life

Hylton lives in Baltimore; he is divorced with two children.[37]

Bibliography

The New York Times Magazine
GQ
Harper's
Esquire
The Atlantic

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: The New York Times Magazine - Masthead. The New York Times. March 2011.
  2. Wil S. Hylton. The New Yorker.
  3. Wil S. Hylton. Rolling Stone.
  4. Web site: Wil S. Hylton. Esquire.
  5. Web site: Wil S. Hylton | Harper's Magazine. Harper's Magazine.
  6. Web site: Wil S. Hylton - Bio, latest news and articles. GQ.
  7. Web site: Willie Nelson's Crusade to Stop Big Pot. Hylton. Wil S.. 2015-11-02. New York Magazine.
  8. Web site: American Deserter: Why AWOL U.S. Soldiers Are Most at Risk in Canada. Hylton. Wil S.. 2015-02-25. New York Magazine.
  9. Web site: Search Results. Outside Online.
  10. News: My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me. The New York Times. 8 May 2019. Hylton. Wil S..
  11. Web site: Baltimore writer Wil Hylton goes deep to solve a decades-old mystery. Woods. Baynard. citypaper.com. en-US. 2019-05-09.
  12. Web site: Island of Forbidden Delights. 2004-05-02. Outside Online. en. 2019-05-09.
  13. Web site: Cuba, from Tip to Tail | Esquire | APRIL 2000.
  14. Inside the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner. 2000-08-30. Rolling Stone.
  15. News: Mazar I Sharif. Hylton. Wil S.. 2002-08-01. Esquire.
  16. News: Who owns this body?. Hylton. Wil S.. 2001-06-01. Esquire.
  17. News: Guilty. Hylton. Wil S.. 2000-12-01. Esquire.
  18. Web site: The Big, Bad Wolfowitz?. Hylton. Wil S.. 2006-10-31. GQ. en. 2019-05-09.
  19. Web site: Casualty of War. Hylton. Wil S.. 2006-10-31. GQ. en. 2019-05-09.
  20. Web site: The People V. Richard Cheney. Hylton. Wil S.. 2007-02-14. GQ. en. 2019-05-09.
  21. Web site: Remembering Why Americans Loathe Dick Cheney. Friedersdorf. Conor. 2011-08-30. The Atlantic. en-US. 2019-05-09.
  22. News: Abu Ghraib Whistleblower Speaks Out. Norris. Michele. 2006-08-15. NPR.org. en. 2019-05-09.
  23. Web site: This Sunday: Excuse Me While I Get Fitted for a Hazmat Suit. Lindgren. Hugo. 2011-10-28. The 6th Floor Blog. en-US. 2019-05-09.
  24. News: How Ready Are We for Bioterrorism?. Hylton. Wil S.. 2011-10-26. The New York Times. 2019-05-09. en-US. 0362-4331.
  25. News: What Happened to Air France Flight 447?. Hylton. Wil S.. 2011-05-04. The New York Times. 2019-05-09. en-US. 0362-4331.
  26. News: Down the Breitbart Hole. Hylton. Wil S.. 2017-08-16. The New York Times. 2019-05-09. en-US. 0362-4331.
  27. News: Baltimore vs. Marilyn Mosby. Hylton. Wil S.. 2016-09-28. The New York Times. 2019-05-09. en-US. 0362-4331.
  28. News: The Shame of America's Family Detention Camps. Hylton. Wil S.. 2015-02-04. The New York Times. 2019-05-09. en-US. 0362-4331.
  29. Web site: Memorandum Opinion. ACLU.
  30. Web site: ELLIE AWARDS 2017 WINNERS ANNOUNCED ASME. asme.magazine.org. 2019-05-09.
  31. News: Listen to 'The Daily': House Arrest in Venezuela. Barbaro. Michael. 2018-03-12. The New York Times. 2019-05-09. en-US. 0362-4331.
  32. News: Listen to 'The Daily': Refusing to Stay Silent. Barbaro. Michael. 2018-03-13. The New York Times. 2019-05-09. en-US. 0362-4331.
  33. Web site: John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism. Medill Northwestern University. https://web.archive.org/web/20130827012020/http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/about/sponsoredawards.aspx?id=113091. 2013-08-27. dead.
  34. Web site: Wil Hylton HuffPost. HuffPost. en. 2019-05-09.
  35. Web site: Wil S. Hylton, Special Lecturer Advanced Academic Programs Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins University. en-US. 2019-05-09.
  36. Web site: M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction Faculty. Goucher College. en. 2019-05-09.
  37. News: My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me.. Wil S.. Hylton. The New York Times. 8 May 2019. 9 May 2019.

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