Template:Short description Template:Infobox writer Fred Waitzkin (born 1943 in Massachusetts) is an American novelist and writer for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, New York, and Esquire. He graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1965, and lives in New York City and Martha's Vineyard.<ref name="Helmer2005">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>
Waitzkin is the father of chess prodigy Joshua Waitzkin<ref name="Amis2014">Template:Cite book</ref> and wrote a book about his son called Searching for Bobby Fischer; he felt that Joshua could be a successor to Bobby Fischer. The book was praised by Grandmaster Nigel Short,<ref>The Spectator, April 8, 1989, pp. 30–31</ref> as well as chess journalist Edward Winter, who called it "a delightful book" in which "the topics [are] treated with an acuity and grace that offer the reviewer something quotable on almost every page."<ref>Searching for Bobby Fischer review, Edward Winter, Chess History, 1989</ref> Screenwriter and playwright Tom Stoppard called the book "well written" and "captivating".<ref>The Observer, April 2, 1989, p.45</ref> The book was made into the Academy Award-nominated namesake film<ref name="Ebert2009">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="DidingerMacnow2009">Template:Cite book</ref> (but released in the U.K. as Innocent Moves), with Joe Mantegna playing Joshua Waitzkin's father.<ref name="Halliwell1996">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Major worksEdit
- 1988: Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess
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- The Dream Merchant