Wayne Worcester

Professor Wayne Worcester
Born	(1947-09-05) September 5, 1947 (age 77) Keene, New Hampshire, U.S.
Education	University of New Hampshire, Columbia University
Occupation(s)	Professor of Journalism (retired) Journalist and Magazine writer (former)
Employer	University of Connecticut
Known for	Teaching, Sherlock Holmes novels, Journalist writings
Notable work	The Monster of St. Marylebone, Sweet Rewards

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.[1][2] 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.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]

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

References

1. "Journalist Department UConn".
2. Journalism & mass communication directory. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. 2004.
3. "Journalism Professor Turns Writing Skills to Sherlock Holmes Mystery". Advance - University of Connecticut. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
4. "Thirty-five Years Later, a Mafia Heist Still Intrigues". UConn Today. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
5. "Sleeping my life away". NBC News. Archived from the original on March 3, 2015.