N. D. Wilson
| ND Wilson | |
|---|---|
| Born | Nathan David Wilson 1978 Moscow, Idaho |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Young adult fiction, Children's literature, Apologetics |
| Notable works |
100 Cupboards Trilogy Leepike Ridge Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl |
Nathan David Wilson (born 1978) is an American author of young adult fiction.
Wilson is the son of Calvinist minister Douglas Wilson and author Nancy Wilson. In sixth grade, Wilson decided that he wanted to become a writer, but he did not do any lengthy fiction writing until some years later. Wilson graduated from New Saint Andrews College in 1999. He studied theology through Liberty University from 1999 to 2000, and he received a master's degree in liberal arts from St. John’s College in 2001.
During his graduate studies, Wilson began to work seriously toward writing children's fantasy. Of his first (unpublished) novel, "The Seventh Sneeze," he would later joke, "The title was the best thing about it." Wilson abandoned that project and launched a second attempt, which would ultimately become his 100 Cupboards series.
Wilson began teaching at New Saint Andrews College as an adjunct professor in 2001. In 2005, he was named a Fellow of Literature at the college. The same year, Wilson announced in Books & Culture magazine that he had made a near-duplicate of the Shroud of Turin image by exposing dark linen to the sun for ten days under a sheet of glass on which a positive mask had been painted, and in doing so, "caused some uproar in the Shroud of Turin world."
Along with writing and teaching, Wilson currently serves as the managing editor for Credenda/Agenda magazine.
Wilson is married. He and his wife Heather have five children.
Much of Wilson's fictional writing is characterized by its creative allusions to classic literature. Leepike Ridge uses themes from The Odyssey, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and King Solomon's Mines, while the 100 Cupboards series was influenced by the King Arthur stories, both as told by Geoffrey of Monmouth and by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene, and fairy tales from Robert Kirk and Sir Walter Scott. The Ashtown Burials series includes many historical and mythological characters (including Gilgamesh), and the first book in that series, The Dragon's Tooth, refigures elements from the opening chapters of Treasure Island. Boys of Blur, meanwhile, mirrors Beowulf—despite being set in the Florida Everglades.
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