Brendan Emmett Quigley is a crossword

Crossword

A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or rectangular grid of white and shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer...

 constructor. He has been described as a "crossword wunderkind". His work has been published in The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

, the Washington Post

The Washington Post

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, the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

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, and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate

Los Angeles Times Syndicate

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. He appeared in the documentary Wordplay

Wordplay (film)

Wordplay is a 2006 documentary film directed by Patrick Creadon. It features Will Shortz, the editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle, crossword constructor Merl Reagle, and many other noted crossword solvers and constructors...

and the book Crossworld: One Man's Journey into America's Crossword Obsession.

In a 2007 interview, the Boston Globe Magazine credited Quigley with "making the New York Times crossword hip."

Career

Quigley became interested in crosswords while studying at the University of New Hampshire

University of New Hampshire

The University of New Hampshire is a public university in the University System of New Hampshire , United States. The main campus is in Durham, New Hampshire. An additional campus is located in Manchester. With over 15,000 students, UNH is the largest university in New Hampshire. The university is...

. Will Shortz

Will Shortz

Will Shortz is an American puzzle creator and editor, and currently the crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times.-Early life and education:...

 bought his first submission to the New York Times.

He lists Merl Reagle

Merl Reagle

Merl Reagle is an American crossword constructor. Since 1985, he has constructed a puzzle every Sunday for the San Francisco Chronicle ; it is now also published by the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Seattle Times, The Plain Dealer...

, Frank Longo, Elizabeth Gorski and Patrick Berry among his influences.