User:Davecullen

I have been an occasional contributor to wikipedia since the early 2000s--I have no idea exactly when. (That was before they had us create user accounts--or maybe before it was required. It doesn't look like I created an account until much later, in 2007.)

Here's my standard bio, written in third person, because it's usually requested that way:

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 Group) titled: 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. 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.

Contact: Email at dave AT davecullen DOT com

More info on me is at my website: www.davecullen.com (I assume it's OK to link to myself on my bio page, no?)

Davecullen 18:13, 24 April 2007 (UTC) 4-24-07