Vitchers, Charles

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Vitchers, Charles

PERSONAL:

Hobbies and other interests: Fishing, outdoor activities.

ADDRESSES:

Home—NY and PA.

CAREER:

Construction worker for more than thirty years; Bovis Lend-Lease, New York, NY, general superintendent.

WRITINGS:

(With Glenn Stout and Robert Gray) Nine Months at Ground Zero: The Story of the Brotherhood of Workers Who Took on a Job Like No Other, Scribner (New York, NY), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

For Sidelights, see Gray, Robert.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Vitchers, Charles, Glenn Stout, and Robert Gray, Nine Months at Ground Zero: The Story of the Brotherhood of Workers Who Took on a Job Like No Other, Scribner (New York, NY), 2006.

PERIODICALS

Publishers Weekly, March 6, 2006, David Siegfried, review of Nine Months at Ground Zero, p. 63; March 6, 2006, second review of Nine Months at Ground Zero, p. 63.

ONLINE

Simon & Schuster Web site,http://www.simonsays.com/ (November 20, 2006), brief biography of Charles Vitchers.*