Carl Vigeland

Carl Vigeland is the founder of Combray House Books and a bestselling author whose 18 books span music, sports, memoir, literary non-fiction, and fiction. His works include Trumpet Voluntaries (with Charles Schlueter), Holy Ground, Symmetry, Walking Trane, Ricochet, October Calf (with Archibald MacLeish), Dear President Trump: An Open Letter on Greatness, A Symphony for Shelbie, French Lessons (with Joseph C. French Jr.), The Great Romance, The Breathless Present, Jonathan Sternberg, The Mostly Mozart Guide to Mozart, Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life (with Wynton Marsalis), Letters to a Young Golfer (with Bob Duval), Stalking the Shark, In Concert, and Great Good Fortune.

His writing has been featured in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Fast Company, Golf Digest, Playboy, Downbeat, DoubleTake, Yankee, Conde Nast Traveler, Boston Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, Country Journal, New England Monthly, and Harvard.

A graduate of Harvard College, Vigeland was a longtime lecturer in journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was recognized for excellence in teaching. His In Concert, a celebrated chronicle of the Boston Symphony, received a commendation from the New York Public Library. His research on Mozart was supported by a residency at Yaddo. Vigeland is an amateur pianist and trumpet player, as well as an expert skier and accomplished golfer—interests that often inspire his work. He also coaches the high school golf team in Amherst.