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Jeff Wheelwright graduated from Yale College in 1969, with Honors in English, and from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 1971. The first half of my career was spent in New York City. I worked as a television producer and writer, and then as the science and medicine editor for the monthly Life magazine. Since 1989 I have been on my own. I moved with my wife to the coast of California. I’ve written three books and contributed articles and essays to many magazines. Links to my books and some of my essays are posted on this site.
I am about to produce my fourth book. Its provisional title is The Skeptical Pilgrim: Travels with Melville in the Holy Land. It is about Herman Melville and me in what is now Israel-Palestine, a place he visited once and I four times. Why did we go? What did we learn there, two pilgrims 150 years apart? Melville’s writing about Palestine, consisting of a travel journal and a very long religious poem, introduces themes about faith and the fraught meeting of peoples that are still being played out today.