Edward Dolnick

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Edward Dolnick
Born
Edward Ishmael Dolnick

(1952-11-10) November 10, 1952 (age 71)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Brandeis University (BA)
OccupationWriter
Children Ben Dolnick
Samuel Dolnick
Relatives Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg (mother-in-law)

Edward Ishmael Dolnick (born November 10, 1952) is an American writer, formerly a science writer at the Boston Globe . He has been published in Atlantic Monthly , The New York Times Magazine , and The Washington Post , among other publications.

Contents

Dolnick's book The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (2005)—an account of the 1994 theft, and eventual recovery, of Edvard Munch's The Scream from Norway's National Gallery in Oslo—won the 2006 Edgar Award in the Best Crime Fact category. His 2008 book, The Forger's Spell, describes the 1930-1940s forging of Johannes Vermeer paintings by a critic-detesting Dutch artist, accepted as "masterpieces" by art experts until the artist's confession and trial in 1945.

Personal life

In 1973, he married Lynn Iphigene Golden in a Jewish ceremony in Marblehead, Massachusetts. [1] Golden is the daughter of publisher Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg of the Ochs-Sulzberger family, [2] [1] publishers of The New York Times , and is on the board of The New York Times Company. [3] The couple lives in the Washington, D.C. area and has two children: author Benjamin Dolnick and Samuel Dolnick. Samuel is an associate editor at The New York Times. [4]

Selected works

Books

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References

  1. 1 2 "Edward Ishmael Dolnick Marries Lynn I. Golden". The New York Times . June 18, 1973.
  2. New York Magazine: "Children of the Times - Who’s who in the Ochs-Sulzberger clan" retrieved September 27, 2015
  3. Dolnick, Edward, "Fish or Foul?', The New York Times, September 2, 2008. Note author's byline: "Edward Dolnick is the author, most recently, of 'The Forger’s Spell.' His wife is a member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family and the board of The New York Times Company".
  4. Pompeo, Joe (July 23, 2015). "Sulzberger scion Sam Dolnick gets a promotion at the Times". Politico.