Editing Wayne Worcester

{{short description|American journalist and author (born 1947)}}
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'''Wayne Worcester''' (born 1947) is an American journalist and author born in Keene, New Hampshire in 1947. He graduated from the [[University of New Hampshire]] and [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]] and worked as a reporter and magazine writer. He became a journalism professor at the [[University of Connecticut]] in 1987.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.journalism.uconn.edu/wayne.html|title=Journalist Department UConn}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Journalism & mass communication directory|publisher=Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication|year=2004}}</ref>  He is the author of a series of [[Sherlock Holmes]] novels.

==Biography==
Worcester was a news reporter for the ''[[Providence Journal]]'' in [[Providence, Rhode Island]] for over a decade before he joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut as a journalism professor in 1987.<ref>{{cite web|title=Journalism Professor Turns Writing Skills to Sherlock Holmes Mystery|url=http://advance.uconn.edu/2000/000124/00012410.htm|work=Advance - University of Connecticut|accessdate=21 April 2013}}</ref> He reported on the theft of more than $30 million worth of valuables from safe deposit boxes in 1975; most of the valuables belonged to the [[Patriarca crime family]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Thirty-five Years Later, a Mafia Heist Still Intrigues|url=http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2011/03/thirty-five-years-later-a-mafia-heist-still-intrigues/|work=UConn Today|accessdate=21 April 2013}}</ref> He began working as a journalism professor in 1987 at the University of Connecticut in [[Storrs, Connecticut]].

Worcester has been diagnosed with [[narcolepsy]] and has been featured in national media coverage of the illness, including [[NBC News]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Sleeping my life away|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7793283/ns/health-mental_health/t/sleeping-my-life-away/#.UXQuLLVwqoM|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150303181552/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7793283/ns/health-mental_health/t/sleeping-my-life-away#.UXQuLLVwqoM|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 3, 2015|work=NBC News}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
===Sherlock Holmes===
*''The Monster of St. Marylebone'' (© 1999) {{ISBN|0-451-19871-9}}
*''The Jewel of Covent Garden'' (© 2000) {{ISBN|0-451-20195-7}}

==Short stories==
*"Sweet Rewards" (included in the mystery anthology ''And the Dying Is Easy'' (© 2001) {{ISBN|0-451-20329-1}})

===Non-fiction===
*''The Essential Researcher'' (©1993) {{ISBN|0-06-271514-3}}

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[[Category:American male journalists]]
[[Category:Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1947 births]]
[[Category:Writers of Sherlock Holmes pastiches]]
[[Category:Writers from Keene, New Hampshire]]