Background
Wolcott was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in a suburban setting.
Wolcott was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in a suburban setting.
He attended Maryland"s Frostburg State College for two years.
Wolcott is the cultural critic for Vanity Fair and contributes to The New Yorker. He also writes a blog. From there, he moved to New York City, to work at The Village Voice, first in the circulation department answering phone complaints, then as a receptionist.
Since arriving in New York, Wolcott has been a columnist on media and popular culture for such publications as Esquire, Harper"s Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and New York Magazine.
He was lured to Vanity Fair by the late Leo Lerman, then the magazine"s editors Wolcott wrote a novel, The Catsitters, published in 2001.
In 2004, he published Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants, a critique of right-wing media in the United States. In addition, he recently contributed the foreword to Geoffrey Beene"s forthcoming book, Identity.
His memoir Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York was published October 25, 2011.
2014 Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Critical Massachusetts