Paul Hendrickson

Paul Hendrickson, a former staff writer at The Washington Post, teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of seven books. His Sons of Mississippi won the 2003 National Books Critics Circle Award. He is working on a book about his father and World War II.

On James Dickey and the Truths
That Matter

Paul Hendrickson Tells a Story of War and Family

December 7, 2020 By Paul Hendrickson

Snapshots Before the War: Saying Goodbye in 1944

Paul Hendrickson on the Day His Father Shipped Off to Japan

September 23, 2020 By Paul Hendrickson

On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

What Does the “Iceberg Theory” Look Like Applied to Architecture?

November 6, 2019 By Paul Hendrickson

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