JAMIESON WENDELL

Wendell Jamieson is an award-winning reporter and editor who has covered New York City since the late 1980s, working as an obituary writer, copy boy, police reporter, rewriteman, night editor, and web editor, among other jobs. He spent eighteen years at The New York Times, the last five of them as Metro editor. In 2007, he wrote Father Knows Less, or "Can I Cook My Sister?", published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, in which he explored the sometimes bizarre questions of children.