Carl Vigeland has combined lifelong interests in music
and sports to create a body of work that explores the phenomenon
of performance at its highest level.
He is the author of six books: Great Good Fortune,
In
Concert, Stalking the Shark, Jazz
in the Bittersweet Blues of Life (with Wynton
Marsalis), Letters
to a Young Golfer (with Bob Duval), and Ricochet
(forthcoming). A former newspaper reporter, Vigeland
has written about many different subjects for a wide variety
of magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, Boston
Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, Conde
Nast Traveler, Country Journal, DoubleTake,
Downbeat, Fast Company, Golf Digest,
Harvard, New England Monthly, The New
York Times Magazine, Playboy, Sports Illustrated,
and Yankee.
In addition to his own writing, Vigeland has served as a
consultant and ghost writer on a wide range of projects, including
the memoirs of a retired circus performer. A graduate of Harvard,
he is a lecturer in journalism
at the University
of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he and his family live.
An amateur pianist and trumpet player, Vigeland is also an
expert skier and golfer and has written extensively about
those passions and the travels they have inspired. |
