Dave Cullen
Author of Columbine
About the Author
Dave Cullen is the author of the New York Times bestseller Columbine. He covered Parkland for Vanity Fair since the first weekend, following the Parkland kids around the country and into their rehearsals, their clandestine office, and their homes.
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Works by Dave Cullen
Soldiers First 7 copies
Associated Works
Backstabbers, Crazed Geniuses, and Animals We Hate: The Writers of Slate's "Assessment" Column Tell It Like It Is (2006) — Contributor — 20 copies
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- Canonical name
- Cullen, Dave
- Legal name
- Cullen, David Thomas
- Birthdate
- 1961-06-03
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Denver, Colorado, USA
Kuwait
Ft. Benning, Georgia, USA
Dallas, Texas, USA
Manama, Bahrain (show all 10)
Blackpool, England
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Urbana, Illinois, USA
Washington, D.C., USA - Education
- University of Colorado at Boulder (MA|Creative Writing)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (BS|Math & Computer Science) - Occupations
- journalist
- Relationships
- Berlin, Lucia (mentor)
- Organizations
- United States Army
- Awards and honors
- GLAAD Media Award
Society of Professional Journalists Award - Agent
- Betsy Lerner (Dunow, Carlson & Lerner)
- Short biography
- Dave Cullen is the author of Columbine, an indelible portrait of the killers, the victims, and the community that suffered one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century. He is a journalist who has contributed to the New York Times, Times of London, Slate, Salon, New York Daily News, The Guardian, 5280, Pacific News Service and In These Times.
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, and several Best of Salon citations. He is an Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma at Columbia University.
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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- Works
- 5
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 4,105
- Popularity
- #6,128
- Rating
- 4.3
- Reviews
- 217
- ISBNs
- 37
- Languages
- 4
- Favorited
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Am I happy I read it? Not really. But it was very gripping and thorough. It debunked a lot of myths about the Columbine massacre, and was easy to understand even though it jumped around in time a lot. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're sincerely interested in tragedy and/or being depressed.… (more)