Douglas Whynott
Professor Emeritus, School of Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Prior to his retirement, Douglas Whynott taught nonfiction writing and literature. His book, The Sugar Season: A Year in the Life of Maple Syrup, and One Family’s Quest for the Sweetest Harvest, was selected as one of the best books of 2014 by the Boston Globe and won the GreenBook Festival Award for writing about the environment.
Whynott is the author of Following the Bloom: Giant Bluefin, A Unit of Water, A Unit of Time, and A Country Practice. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the U.S. Studies Center at Universidad Nacional in Bogota, Colombia, where he taught nonfiction writing and American literary journalism in a bilingual classroom. Whynott also taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Mount Holyoke College, and Columbia University. He has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Outside, Smithsonian, Discover, Yankee, the Massachusetts Review, Crazyhorse, Writer’s Chronicle, and other publications.