Author

Books by Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler is an American journalist and writer who worked for The New Yorker for over twenty years. His books include Shapinsky's Karma, Boggs's Bills and Other True-Life Tales (1988), Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (1995), and Vermeer in Bosnia (2004). He taught at New York University and is known for long-form profiles that combine intellectual biography with philosophical reflection. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, his portrait of Robert Irwin, is widely regarded as one of the best books about an artist at work written in the twentieth century.