Edward Ishmael Dolnick (born November 10, 1952) is an American writer, formerly a science writer at the ''
Boston Globe''. He has been published in ''
Atlantic Monthly
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'', ''
The New York Times Magazine'', and ''
The Washington Post'', among other publications.
Dolnick's book ''The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece'' (2005)—an account of the 1994 theft, and eventual recovery, of
Edvard Munch
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His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dr ...
's ''The Scream'' from Norway's National Gallery in Oslo—won the 2006
Edgar Award
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in the Best Crime Fact category. His 2008 book, ''The Forger's Spell'', describes the 1930-1940s forging of
Johannes Vermeer paintings by a critic-detesting Dutch artist, accepted as "masterpieces" by art experts until the artist's confession and trial in 1945.
Personal life
In 1973, he married Lynn Iphigene Golden in a
Jewish ceremony in
Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Golden is the daughter of publisher
Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg of the Ochs-Sulzberger family,
[New York Magazine: "Children of the Times - Who’s who in the Ochs-Sulzberger clan"]
retrieved September 27, 2015[ publishers of '' The New York Times'', and is on the board of The New York Times Company. The couple lives in the Washington, D.C. area and has two children: author Benjamin Dolnick and Samuel Dolnick. Samuel is an associate editor at ''The New York Times''.]
Selected works
Books
* ''Madness on the Couch : Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis'' (1998)
* ''Down the Great Unknown : John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
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'' (2001).
* ''The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece'' (2005)
* ''The Forger’s Spell : A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century'' (2008)
''The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World''
(2011).
* ''The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853'' (2014)
* ''The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From'' (2017)
* ''The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone'' (2021)
References
External links
Edward Dolnick website
Reflections on the Forger's Spell: What Makes Great Art Great?
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Living people
American non-fiction crime writers
Jewish American writers
Edgar Award winners
1952 births
Sulzberger family
Brandeis University alumni