Career
He grew up in New York and is currently lives in Washington, District of Columbia with a wife and two kids. He is also an author of more than nine books, the recent of which is Summer of "68: The Season When Baseball, and America, Changed Forever which was named a top 10 choice by Publishers Weekly and was also named Notable Book of the Year 2013 by the Michigan State. Wendel is also a writer in residence at Johns Hopkins University.
He is also a recipient of the Walter East. Dakin Fellow and Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writers" Conference, beside being a Pen/Faulkner visiting writer to the Washington, District of Columbia Public Schools.
Wendel has a master"s degree in writing from Johns Hopkins and a bachelor"s degree in magazine journalism from Syracuse University. In 2005, Wendel co-wrote a piece that was a finalist for the Good Morning America national memoir contest.
He also co-founded United States of America Today Baseball Weekly, which he edited and wrote foreign Wendel has also been nominated twice for the Virginia Literary Award.
