Edward Weingold

Edward Weingold is a produced playwright (12 plays in 20 productions) off-off Broadway, San Francisco Bay Area and has held a day job for three years as cataloguer for old rare books and prints (and antiquarian cartography, the subject of his novel). For over 12 years, he has written and recorded a monthly piece for a National Public Radio affiliate, First Person Singular. He taught English and Theatre courses at the City University of New York and several colleges in California and recently retired from 20 years as a technical writer.

A Map of the World (W.A.F.)

Eindhoven, Netherlands, 3 March 1944
Herman Dijkstra’s pencil point hovers above the entry on the onionskin sheet. Housekeeper—I don’t trust her. I’m afraid for Hetty.

Unwelcome warmth flushes his face. Emma Berghuis—hired after Marthe’s remains were shipped home. Marthe—gone to Rotterdam to help with a cousin’s birth, May 1940. Herman’s throat tightens; he imagines his wife, crushed, burnt in the blitzkrieg.

Edward Weingold

Edward Weingold is a produced playwright (12 plays in 20 productions) off-off Broadway, San Francisco Bay Area and has held a day job for three years as cataloguer for old rare books and prints (and antiquarian cartography, the subject of his novel). For over 12 years, he has written and recorded a monthly piece for a National Public Radio affiliate, First Person Singular. He taught English and Theatre courses at the City University of New York and several colleges in California and recently retired from 20 years as a technical writer.

A Map of the World (W.A.F.)

Eindhoven, Netherlands, 3 March 1944
Herman Dijkstra’s pencil point hovers above the entry on the onionskin sheet. Housekeeper—I don’t trust her. I’m afraid for Hetty.

Unwelcome warmth flushes his face. Emma Berghuis—hired after Marthe’s remains were shipped home. Marthe—gone to Rotterdam to help with a cousin’s birth, May 1940. Herman’s throat tightens; he imagines his wife, crushed, burnt in the blitzkrieg.

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