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Carl Vigeland Author

Among Carl Vigeland’s other books are The Breathless Present: A Memoir in Four Movements, The Mostly Mozart Guide to Mozart, Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life (with Wynton Marsalis), and The Great Romance. Vigeland has also written for a wide variety of magazines, including The Atlantic, DoubleTake, Downbeat, TheNew York Times Magazine, Playboy, and Sports Illustrated. A graduate of Harvard, Vigeland for many years taught writing at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he lives.