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Wyn Wachhorst
Growing up in America in the forties and fifties, Wyn Wachhorst lived the topics of these essays. He performed in the urban folk music revival, was part of the duck-and-cover gener...view moreGrowing up in America in the forties and fifties, Wyn Wachhorst lived the topics of these essays. He performed in the urban folk music revival, was part of the duck-and-cover generation, and came of age in a time before television eclipsed radio, football superseded baseball, and crime shows replaced Westerns, a time before the reality of spaceflight displaced the wonders of science fiction and the romance of the railroad receded into history.
His book, The Dream of Spaceflight: Essays on the Near Edge of Infinity (Basic Books), was on the science bestseller lists of Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Thomas Alva Edison: An American Myth (MIT Press) was a history book club selection, picked by Choice as an outstanding book of the year, and reviewed favorably in Newsweek, Discover, Smithsonian, Science, the New York Times, London Sunday Times, and some three dozen other publications. His fifty-five articles and essays have appeared in the Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, Southwest Review, San Francisco magazine, Narrative magazine, Endless Vacation, Mechanical Engineering, Isis, Extrapolation, Explorers’ Journal, Planetary Report, the Journal of American History, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle and in anthologies. Three of his essays were noted in Best American Essays, and one recently won the McGinnis-Ritchie Prize for best essay of the year. He writes speeches and articles for Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin and was asked by NASA’s Decade Planning Team to write the new NASA myth, an inspirational long-term mission statement. Wachhorst received his Ph.D. in American history from Stanford and taught history and American studies at Stanford, the University of California Santa Cruz, and San Jose State. He resides with his wife in Atherton, California.view less
Books by Wyn Wachhorst
The Best of Times: Motifs from Postwar America—Reflections on Nostalgia