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FORMAL BIO:

    Dave Cullen is a journalist and author who has contributed to many periodicals, including Slate, Salon, and the New York Times. He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on the Columbine killers, and is working on a book about the massacre for Dutton (Penguin): A Lasting Impression On The World: The Definitive Account of Columbine and Its Aftermath. This will be the first comprehensive book on Columbine by a prominent journalist: It is due out in hardcover in 2008.

    Cullen has won several writing awards, including a GLAAD Media Award, Society of Professional Journalism awards, and several Best of Salon citations. Me in my writing studio. I rent a small separate space just down the hall from my apt. He specializes in ethnographic reporting, and has written extensively about the military, Evangelical Christians, gays in the military and Christianity, politics and pop culture.

    He broke several major Columbine stories including:

    • The first leaked passages from Eric Harris' journal,
    • First interview with Lead Investigator Kate Battan,
    • Revelation that Christian martyr Cassie Bernall never "Said Yes,"
    • First in-depth interview with Principal Frank DeAngelis, and
    • First analysis of the killers' motives by the head of the FBI team, Supervisory Special Agent Dwayne Fuselier.

    Cullen's Columbine coverage has been cited by most major media, and featured prominently by columnists Frank Rich and David Brooks in the New York Times, Hanna Rosin in the Washington Post, and the Columbia Journalism Review. He holds an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Colorado—Boulder.

    Cullen grew up in Chicago, and has worked in most regions of the U.S., as well as England, Kuwait and Bahrain. He worked as a computer systems developer for EDS and a management consultant for Arthur Andersen. He served as a Private and a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He moved to Colorado in1994, and currently lives in Denver.

    RECENT WORK:

    CONTACT:

    • Email: dave@davecullen.com
    • Email me to be notified when my book is published, and/or be added to my periodic newsletter mailing list. I am very careful about email confidentiality. I won't share your address or post it. Anywhere. Ever. I usually send the newsletter a few times a year.
    • Editor and agent info at the bottom of the page.


THE PERSONAL STORY—ABRIDGED VERSION:

    I'd much rather tell it as a story, but since our lives are such a rush rush rush . . .

    I'm a recovering Catholic boy from Chicago who seems to have spent my whole life groping my way toward New York City yet still pounds the keyboard out here in the hinterlands on the Front Range, writing a book about Columbine for Dutton because it ate and ate and ate away at me forever, and I'm hoping the people involved nod their heads when they read it and the rest of you who were fed a yarn about jocks and blacks and the Trenchcoat Mafia finally feel a twinge understanding, and way way way up there in the heavens somewhere Vladimir Nabokov looks down at the word usements and smiles.

IF YOU'VE GOT A MINUTE:

Contact:

  • Email: dave@davecullen.com
  • Editor: Erika Imranyi, at Dutton.
  • Literary Agent: Betsy Lerner, at Dunow, Carlson, & Lerner.
  • Email me to be notified when my book is published, and/or be added to my periodic newsletter mailing list. I am very careful about email confidentiality. I won't share your address or post it. Anywhere. Ever. I usually send the newsletter a few times a year.



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Dave Cullen logo by Jimmy/Gnash. Columbine collage by Dave Cullen.
Contact: dave@davecullen.com