Wil S. Hylton | |
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 Hylton at the 2014 Gaithersburg Book Festival | |
| Born | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Notable works | Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II |
Wil S. Hylton is an American journalist. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine [1] and has published cover stories for The New Yorker , [2] Rolling Stone , [3] Esquire , [4] Harper's , [5] Details , GQ , [6] New York , [7] [8] Outside , [9] and many others.
Hylton was born in Baltimore, Maryland and attended Baltimore City College high school. He enrolled in Kenyon College for a year before being expelled. [10]
Hylton began publishing articles in The Baltimore Sun as a teenager, [11] and was writing for major magazines by his early twenties. [3] [12] [4] In 1999 he bicycled across Cuba for Esquire , [13] climbed the Ecuadorean Andes for Details , and wrote about Hugh Hefner for Rolling Stone . [14]
At 24, Hylton was hired as a Contributing Editor at Esquire, where he wrote about the invasion of Afghanistan, [15] attempts to patent the human genome, [16] and the prosecution of alleged nuclear spy Wen Ho Lee. [17] After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hylton became a Washington Correspondent for GQ , publishing criticism of the war [18] [19] and drafting articles of impeachment for Dick Cheney. [20] [21] He was the first journalist to interview Joe Darby, the whistleblower at Abu Ghraib prison. [22]
Hylton was hired by The New York Times Magazine as a Contributing Writer in 2010. [1] In October 2011, Hugo Lindgren, editor of The New York Times Magazine, wrote, "By now you should know that when you see Wil's byline on a piece, it doesn't really matter what it's about. Just read it.” [23] Hylton has written for the magazine about bioterrorism, [24] the search for Air France Flight 447, [25] the influence of Breitbart News , [26] and the prosecution of police officers after the death of Freddie Gray. [27] His February 8, 2015 article about the family detention policy to imprison Central American women and children [28] was cited by a federal judge in an injunction to suspend the policy two weeks later. [29] His 2016 profile of the painter Chuck Close was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Feature Writing. [30]
In 2018, Hylton stated on The Daily that he was conducting secret interviews with the Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, who at the time was under house arrest. [31] [32]
Hylton is a recipient of the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Journalism by the Medill School of Journalism [33] and his articles have been anthologized in the books "Best Political Writing," "Best Music Writing," and "Best Business Stories." [34] He is a Special Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University [35] and a member of the faculty at the MFA program in creative nonfiction at Goucher College. [36]
Hylton lives in Baltimore; he is divorced with two children. [37]
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