Brad Wetzler

Brad Wetzler
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Born	1966
Nationality	American
Education	BA in Philosophy and English
Alma mater	University of Kansas
Occupation	Memoirist Editor Journalist

Brad Wetzler (born 1966) is an American memoirist, editor, and journalist. He is the author of Into the Soul of the World and Real Mosquitoes Don't Eat Meat.

Biography

A native of Prairie Village, Kansas, Wetzler was an editor and longtime contributing editor at Outside magazine and has written for such periodicals as the New York Times, Newsweek, GQ, Wired, National Geographic Adventure, Travel + Leisure, Men's Journal, and George. His magazine work has been collected in several published anthologies, including Best American Travel Writing series and Outside 25: Classic Tales and New Voices from the Frontiers of Adventure.

During his tenure as an editor at Outside, Wetzler conceived of the idea to send a writer to Mount Everest basecamp. The author Jon Krakauer accepted the assignment, and then later decided on his own volition to climb to the summit. Wetzler shepherded the 17,000-word article "Into Thin Air," about the 1996 tragedy on Mount Everest through Outside's editorial process. The article won a National Magazine Award for Reporting, and Krakauer later published a best-selling book titled "Into Thin Air."

Brad Wetzler graduated from the University of Kansas with a BA in Philosophy and English. He earned a masters' degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Wetzler lives in Austin, Texas.

Books

Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing (Hachette Go, 2023)

Real Mosquitoes Don't Eat Meat: The Best of Outside Magazine's "The Wildfile" (W.W. Norton's Countryman Press, 2005)

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