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A graduate of Cowell College of the University Of California At Santa Cruz ( 1974 ), Weschler was for over twenty years ( 1981 - 2002 ) a staff writer at '' The New Yorker '', where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Awards (for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992 ) and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award ( 1998 ).

Since 2001 , Weschler has been the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University . He taught throughout the 1990s at Sarah Lawrence College in New York .

Weschler is the grandson of the composer Ernst Toch .


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