is the weekly film critic and frequent travel writer for The Saturday Evening Post. Earlier, he was Senior Editor and an award-winning Space Science and Expeditions Editor at National Geographic magazine. During seventeen years at AARP the Magazine, where he also served as Senior Editor, he received the Lowell Thomas Award for best travel coverage and created AARP’s Movies for Grownups franchise. His Gracie Award-winning “AARP Movies for Grownups Radio Show” aired weekly for twelve years.
Bill is the author of All the Right Wrong Turns: True (And Sometimes Twisted) Tales of Coastal Delaware from the Back Roads to the Beaches (2021) and its sequel, More Right Wrong Turns (2024), both honored by the National Federation of Press Women. He also contributed a chapter to the National Geographic Explorations Atlas (2000). And in what seems like another life, from 1980 to 1990, he was a writer for The National Enquirer in Lantana, Florida. He never met a space alien.
Bill lives in Lewes, Delaware, with his wife, Carolyn.
Books by Bill Newcott
Divided We Stand
By Bill Newcott
Every day, U.S. news media – left, right, and center – inundate us with images of Americans at a war with each other. Immigration, guns, …