Author of KINGS OF BROKEN THINGS Theodore Wheeler's untitled book, set during an NSA post-9/11 domestic spying campaign, in which an unassuming nurse becomes a target of investigation when her long-missed, presumed-dead brother resurfaces in a terrorist propaganda video, exploring faith, family, and the failure of humanism in America today, to Vivian Lee at Little A, in an exclusive submission, for publication in spring 2020.
Theodore Wheeler is the author of three novels, most recently THE WAR BEGINS IN PARIS (Little Brown, 2023). He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Nebraska Arts Council, and Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. He worked for fourteen years as a journalist who covered law and politics, and his fiction is often influenced by real life and historical events. Wheeler and his family operate Dundee Book Company, an independent neighborhood bookshop, and he is a professor in the English Department at Creighton University. A native Iowan, he now lives in Omaha, Nebraska.