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Glen Weldon

American writer and podcaster

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Glen Weldon was an American writer, podcaster, critic and theatre critic.

Glen Weldon is an American writer, cultural critic, and podcaster. He has written for publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, Slate, The Atlantic, and McSweeney's. Weldon currently writes for the NPR Arts Desk and is a panelist on the podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour.

Career Weldon currently writes for the NPR Arts Desk and is a panelist on the podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour with Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson, and Aisha Harris.

In his work, Weldon often draws on his life experience as a gay man In addition to shorter fiction work appearing in anthologies and publications, he is the author of two non-fiction pop culture histories about comic book superheroes and nerd culture. 2016's The Caped Crusade covered Batman's relevance through decades of popular culture.

Weldon has earned an Arts Journalism Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts for Fiction, a Ragdale Writing Fellowship, and an Amtrak Writers' Residency. He attended Southampton College and graduated with a degree in marine biology. On his NPR bio page, it is stated that he was "a completely inept marine biologist and a slightly better-ept competitive swimmer."

Works Superman: The Unauthorized Biography. The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. "Of MSE-6 and Men" short story in From a Certain Point of View

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Nationality
Education
Stony Brook Southampton
Employers
NPR
Awards
Pew Fellowship in the Arts

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American writer and podcaster

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· Wikipedia: Glen Weldon

· Wikidata: Q59442690

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