Wayne Worcester
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Wayne Worcester is an American journalist, author, and professor. 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] He is the author of a series of Sherlock Holmes novels.
Professional life
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.[2] He reported on the Bonded Vault heist, a 1975 theft of more than $30 million worth of valuables from safe deposit boxes mostly belonging to the Patriarca crime family.[3] He began working as a journalism professor in 1987 at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut.
Personal life
Worcester has been diagnosed with narcolepsy and has been featured in national media coverage of the illness, including NBC News.[4]
Bibliography
Sherlock Holmes novels
- The Monster of St. Marylebone (1999) Template:ISBN
- The Jewel of Covent Garden (2000) Template:ISBN
Short stories
- "Sweet Rewards" (included in the mystery anthology And the Dying Is Easy (2001) Template:ISBN)
Non-fiction
- The Essential Researcher (1993) Template:ISBN