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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Analytics'. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. His Guggenheim Fellowship is for general nonfiction on crime reporting during the birth of 'yellow journalism' in 1890s Manhattan. Paul Collins lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches creative nonfiction as an Assistant Professor in the MFA program at Portland State University. In addition to appearing regularly on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday as its resident “literary detective” on odd and forgotten old books, he is also the founding editor of the Collins Library imprint of McSweeney’s Books, where he has revived such disparate works as a World War I internment camp memoir ( To Ruhleben and Back) and an absurdist 1934 detective tale ( The Riddle of the Traveling Skull). Collins’s other recent freelance work includes essays for the New York Times, Slate, and The Believer. His six books have been translated into ten languages, and include Not Even Wrong: A Father’s Journey Into the Lost History of Autism (2004), and The Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World (2009).Ī frequent contributor to the 'Histories' column of New Scientist magazine, Mr.

Paul Collins is a writer specializing in science history, memoir, and unusual antiquarian literature.

The Book of William by Paul Collins