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Dorothy Wickenden

Executive editor of The New Yorker since 1996, Wickenden wrote “<a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Nothing-Daunted/Dorothy-Wickenden/9781439176597">Nothing Daunted</a>,” the tale of her grandmother and a friend who left lives of privilege in 1916 to teach the children of homesteaders

Dorothy Wickenden, NF ’89

A graduate seminar in 1989 on Abraham Lincoln still inspires Wickenden. Mathew B. Brady/Courtesy Library of Congress Executive editor of The New Yorker since 1996, Wickenden wrote “Nothing Daunted,” the…
Dorothy Wickenden, NF &rsquo;89

Dorothy Wickenden, NF ’89

Executive editor of The New Yorker since 1996, Wickenden wrote “Nothing Daunted,” the tale of her grandmother and a friend who left lives of privilege in 1916 to teach the…