Will Shortz
Biography
Will Shortz is an American crossword editor and puzzle maker who turned a childhood fascination with word games into a career. Raised in Crawfordsville, Indiana, he graduated from Indiana University in 1974 with a self-designed degree in enigmatology, the study of puzzles, and later earned a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1977 before choosing puzzles over the bar. He started at Penny Press Magazines, then spent 15 years at Games magazine, and in 1993 became the fourth crossword editor of The New York Times. He founded the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in 1978 and has directed it since, created the World Puzzle Championship in 1992, and has been puzzle master on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday since 1987. He wrote the clues left by The Riddler in Batman Forever (1995), was the subject of the 2006 documentary Wordplay, and played a table tennis player in the Hallmark film Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For (2019).
74years old
Turns 75 on August 26in 289 days
- Born Crawfordsville
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as William F. Shortz and William Shortz
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 1 year2019 to 2020
Every film, newest first
- 2020Crossword Mysteries: AbracadaverIMDb rating 6.9
- 2019Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die ForIMDb rating 6.5
- 2019Crossword Mysteries: Proposing MurderIMDb rating 6.9
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Don McCutcheonDirector, 2 films, 2019
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