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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.

 


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