Will Blythe

Will Blythe is a magazine writer and book author living in New York City. He is a former literary editor at Esquire magazine but is now a contributing editor for Harper's and Mirabella, and writes for many other periodicals. Blythe is perhaps best known for his 2006 book, To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever, which follows the author through a season rooting for his beloved University of North Carolina Tar Heels basketball team and examining his hatred of the school's rival, Duke University. The New York Times describes Blythe thus: "... he writes amusingly, self-deprecatingly and often beautifully." Blythe is also the editor of Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction, published in 1999.