Wendell Jamieson
Author | Writer | Editor | Painter
Photo Credit: Ben Russell
I spent 30 years working for newspapers, from obituary writer at The Jersey Journal in Jersey City to Metro editor of The New York Times. Along the way, I worked for every major paper in New York City.
Now I write books, and work with others on their books and essays. I'm beyond excited about my newest project: collaborating with Joshua Miele to tell his incredible story of resilience in Connecting Dots: A Blind Life, coming from Grand Central Publishing in March, 2025. After being severely burned with acid in an event that traumatized Park Slope, Brooklyn -- where we both grew up -- Josh went on to become a MacArthur-winning scientist and fierce advocate for the disabled. And he managed to have quite a few adventures along the way. It's a wild ride.
Connecting Dots: A Blind Life
Joshua A. Miele with Wendell Jamieson
The extraordinary memoir of a scientist who was burned and blinded as a child —how he navigates his experience and channels his genius into decades of cutting‑edge work helping those who can't see —packed with humor, adventure, misadventure, and insights on life, love and disability.
"An instant classic"
– Andrew Leland, Pulitzer Prize-finalist
author of "The Country of the Blind."
"I'm absolutely obsessed with this book. Loved. Could not put this down. Loved, loved, Loved."
– Zibby Owens
“'New York by New York' is the perfect gift."
-- The New York Times
Travel through the most important periods of this great city and into all its boroughs, from Manhattan and Brooklyn to the Bronx and Queens to Staten Island with glimpses into its history and the development of its world- renown skyline. Discover stories from immigration in the early Twentieth Century to Prohibition in the 1920s to the youth revolution in the Sixties. Remember the best moments in Broadway and the discos at Studio 54; dream with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, and Audrey Hepburn or Madonna and Jean- Michel Basquiat.
"Priceless...forget the kids, these are just things I wanted to know."
-- Washington Post
A "small gem of a book...perfect for anyone young or old who has ever wondered about such things as Is a rainbow hot or cold?"
--Booklist
A "compendium of hilariously insightful questions from kids...with often insightfully hilarious answers from adults."
-- Publishers Weekly