About Dave Cullen
Formal Bio
Dave Cullen is a journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller Columbine, an indelible portrait of the killers, the victims, and the community's response to tragedy.
Columbine won Barnes & Noble's Discover Award and the Goodreads Choice Award for Nonfiction. It is currently a finalist for the Edgar Award, LA Times Book Award, and the Audie. Columbine was named to two dozen Best of 2009 lists, including the New York Times, LA Times, Publishers Weekly, iTunes and the American Library Association. It was declared Best Education Book of 2009 by the American School Board Journal.
Cullen has contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, Times of London, Slate, Salon, Daily Beast and the Guardian. He was recently featured on NBC's Today Show and ABC's evening World News.
Cullen is considered a leading authority on the Columbine killers, and has also written extensively on Evangelical Christians, gays in the military, politics, and pop culture. A graduate of the MA program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Cullen has won several earlier writing awards, including a GLAAD Media Award, Society of Professional Journalism awards, the Jovanovich Imaginative Writing Award, and several Best of Salon citations. He is an Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Dave 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.
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