N. D. Wilson

N. D. Wilson

Nathan David Wilson is the son of two prolific Christian authors that we hold in high respect: Doug and Nancy Wilson. He is also an accomplished author in his own right, having published the children's adventure Leepike Ridge, the 100 Cupboards trilogy (completed in 2010), Boys of Blur (April 2014), and the Ashtown Burials series (in progress). He has written two novella-length satires of evangelical apocalyptic fiction (Right Behind and Supergeddon), and two Christian books for adults (Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl and Death by Living) but is currently focusing on several children's projects and short fiction. He is a 1999 graduate of New Saint Andrews College, where he is now a Fellow of Literature, teaching classical rhetoric and composition to freshmen. He also holds a Master's degree in Liberal Arts from Saint John's College in Annapolis, Maryland (2001).

Mr. Wilson also serves as the managing editor for Credenda/Agenda magazine. He has recently published short fiction in The Chattahoochee Review. In 2005 he published an essay in Books & Culture entitled "Father Brown Fakes the Shroud". The piece applied the paradigm analysis of G.K. Chesteron's literary detective, Father Brown, to the mystery of the Shroud of Turin. The essay (and accompanying experiment) garnered him international attention and was featured in multiple news sources, including Discovery Channel News, ABC's World News Tonight, Good Morning America, Der Spiegel, and even a segment in Comedy Central's The Daily Show. Images from his experiment are available at shadowshroud.com.

He and his wife Heather live in Idaho along with their small posse of four children.

The Unprofessional Bio:
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(because if I have to write it, I refuse to do so in the third person)

I was born in 1978 to a couple of Jesus People hippies. An older sister was waiting for me. A younger followed.

My father accidentally became a pastor (it's a long story and I was very young) and has been one ever since. I remember attending church in a large auto body shop, with a beer truck pulled off to the side and frogs and crickets singing back-up. I also remember chasing one of my friends around afterward, and causing her to fall and peel open her chin on the concrete. After that, I caught her easily.

In pre-school, I dug up a dead (and at that point furless) cat in my sandbox. We never learned who had buried it, but I would like to thank them. It was an exciting day. I carried it to the kitchen door of our duplex and told my mother that I had discovered a chicken.

My father helped to found a school with a classical emphasis, which I attended K-12. I have a real fondness for the classics (ancient and modern) as a result. Through my elementary years I spent innumerable hours enjoying and getting into trouble with my friend Joe Casebolt. He lived on the edge of town with creek, large barn, fields, and abandoned rock quarry readily available. We floated the creek on a large chunk of Styrofoam (and sank), went fishing (and got caught) in a bull pasture, collected dozens of mouse skulls (from owl pellets), and took possession of the abandoned combine in the old quarry. In some elementary grade or other, we were assigned a class presentation on the subject of religion. We constructed an idol (of sorts) out of legos and when the time came we walked calmly to the front of the room, bound a lego-man to a popsicle stake, and lit him on fire. His head swelled up nicely. I couldn't tell you what grade we received, but our classmates approved.

Speaking of fire, when I was in sixth grade, my mother gathered the family around the television to watch a documentary entitled "The Story of English". Instead, after noticing the kitchen light flick off, I investigated, and found the ceiling crackling merrily. The roof burned off, we avoided finishing the documentary, and then we went to live with some friends who were house-sitting for someone else. The backyard was a large pond, and over that summer, I became closely acquainted with turtles, streptococcus and penicillin shots in the rear end.

After my turtle-and-shot period, after high school and college, I met (it's complicated), a surfer girl from Santa Cruz, California. And I love her. Never having desired to be entirely governed by reason, I asked her to marry me one month after we met, and I offered her my great-grandmother's ring. In a momentary but sufficient lapse of judgment, she took it, and I haven't stopped smiling since. At least not for long. Now, we have four imaginative and jolly children, and they serve as our primary source of entertainment.

Not everything I write is for children, but all of it is childish. I love the dark flavor of Flannery O'Connor and the supra-realism of Borges, though I can't help but try to add the laughter of G. K. Chesterton. P. G. Wodehouse and C. S. Lewis have been with me my entire life, and always will be. J. R. R. Tolkien cannot be imitated.

Now you know me. But not really. Because I left out all the joy of the dinner table, how my parents read and inked everything I wrote, and the collective imagination that I shared (and share) with my sisters. You haven't heard about the fabulous eight months during which I had a dog named Tyler, or my Grandfathers' war stories, or anything about birthdays or Christmas. And there's nothing in here about Zorro. Oh, well.

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100 Cupboards
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Clouds Ye So Much Dread
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100 Cupboards Book #2
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Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl
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Outlaws of Time Trilogy
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Rhetoric Companion
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Rhetoric Companion - Answer Key
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School of Fantastical Wordcraft
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