the life

Robert Wilder was born on Long Island but raised with his three brothers in Westport, Connecticut, a country block away from Martha Stewart. He has worked as a gas station attendant, dishwasher, factory worker, landscape grunt, grass cutter, lackey, busboy, waiter, concession stand clerk, housepainter, soccer camp director, dog show researcher, fundraiser, and advertising executive. He now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, artist Lala, and their two children, Poppy and London.

Wilder is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, New Mexico State University (M.A.), and Wesleyan University (B.A.). He has published essays in Newsweek, Details, Salon, Creative Nonfiction, Working Mother, El Palacio, The Greensboro Review, The Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He has been a commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition, On Point and many other regional and national radio programs. His Daddy Needs a Drink Minute airs twice weekly on KBAC FM. He is the former director of the Southwest Literary Center of Recursos de Santa Fe, which includes the Writers Reading Series and the Santa Fe Writers Conference. His column, “Daddy Needs a Drink,” is published monthly in the Santa Fe Reporter.

DADDY NEEDS A DRINK, his critically acclaimed best-selling first book, is now in paperback and was optioned for sitcom adaptation. His new book of essays on teaching, TALES FROM THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE, also optioned for sitcom adaptation, will be released in by Delacorte in fall 2008.

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Design: Lauren Whitehurst

Photos courtesy of Jennifer Esperanza, Gene Aker, Rob Wilder and Lala Carroll.