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 caught up in that tragedy. Columbine is currently a finalist for the 2009 Edgar Award and Barnes & Noble's 2009 Discover Award. It won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Nonfiction of 2009, and was declared Best Education Book of 2009 by the American School Board Journal. Columbine was named to two dozen Best of 2009 lists, including the New York Times, LA Times, iTunes and the American Library Association.
Cullen has contributed to the New York Times, Slate, Salon, Times of London, Washington Post and the Guardian. He was recently featured on NBC's Today Show and ABC's World News with Charles Gibson.
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 writing awards, including a GLAAD Media Award, Society of Professional Journalism awards, the Jovanovich Imaginative Writing Award, a 2009 Goodreads Choice 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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