Theodore Wheeler

Omaha/United States — Literature, Solitude fellow 2013–2015

Nicole Wheeler

is also author of the novel Kings of Broken Things (Little A, 2017), and began writing the novel In Our Other Lives (Little A, 2020) when he was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2014. Winner of a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, Wheeler teaches at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, covers a civil-law and politics beat for a national news service, co-directs Omaha Lit Fest, and sidelines as a bookseller for the Dundee Book Company roving book cart, one of the world’s smallest bookstores.

www.theodore-wheeler.com

Akademie Schloss Solitude Profile

Articles with and by Theodore Wheeler:

Excerpt

From In Our Other Lives

by Theodore Wheeler

Elisabeth Holland has an eerie feeling the morning when suddenly her telephone rings. In his new novel In Our Other Lives (Little A, 2020), Theodore Wheeler tells a story of public pain, private loss, and religious extremism that spans between American evangelical ideologies and the the beliefs of Pasthuns.

Book excerpt

»Kings of Broken Things«

by Theodore Wheeler

During the Red Summer of 1919, the burning flames of racial and political tensions ignite the city of Omaha. An excerpt from Theodore Wheeler’s debut novel

About Writing and Politics in Six Parts

by Theodore Wheeler

Fiction

Violate the Leaves

by Theodore Wheeler

Theodore Wheeler's debut collection of short fiction, »Bad Faith,« was published this month by Queens Ferry Press. »Violate the Leaves« was composed at Solitude.

Creating Identity

Omaha Uninitiated

by Theodore Wheeler

Through historical photographs, film, and music from the World War I era, the presentation investigates the celebration of certain identities during this time.

Fiction

The Novella As A Medley

by Theodore Wheeler

An extract from American writer Theodor Wheeler's book »On the River, Down Where They Found Willy Brown«, published by Edition Solitude in 2015.