Paul Willcott is a lapsed Texan with four degrees from the University of Texas, including a Ph.D. in applied linguistics and a law degree. He is a veteran magazine writer...view more
Paul Willcott is a lapsed Texan with four degrees from the University of Texas, including a Ph.D. in applied linguistics and a law degree. He is a veteran magazine writer, editor, publisher, award-winning newspaper columnist and blogger, and if publishing one poem qualifies, a poet. A print version of his novella, A Franklin Manor Christmas was published in 2007. It was performed as a radio play before a live audience at Pendragon Theatre in Saranac Lake, New York in 2008. Digital versions of A Franklin Manor Christmas and A Franklin Manor Epiphany (Book One and Book Two of the Annals of Franklin Manor series, will be published in Autumn, 2022.
He has lived in Baghdad, Amman, Tehran, London, Hong Kong, Zurich, Washington, D.C., New York City, Saranac Lake, New York, and elsewhere. He and his wife Ann Laemmle spent from 1999 till 2017 renovating a former tuberculosis sanatorium/monastery in the Adirondack Mountains. For much of that time, it was a second home; from 2013-2017, their primary residence. They now live in New York City, where they feel more at home than anyplace they have lived.view less