Julia Keller

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Julia Keller
BornHuntington, West Virginia, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • journalist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMarshall University
Ohio State University
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Feature Writing (2005)
Barry Award (2013)
Website
www.juliakeller.net

Julia Keller is an American writer and former journalist.[1] Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

Life

Keller was born in Huntington, West Virginia and lived there throughout her early life. Her father was a mathematics professor who taught at Marshall University. She graduated from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and earned a doctoral degree in English literature from Ohio State University.[2][3][4][5] Her master's thesis was an analysis of the Henry Roth novel, Call It Sleep. Her doctoral dissertation explored multiple biographies of Virginia Woolf (A poetics of literary biography: The creation of "Virginia Woolf", Ohio State, 1996). She currently lives in both Chicago and rural Ohio.[2]

Career

Keller was a

National Public Radio and on The Newshour (PBS
).

Keller began her career as a journalist as an intern for columnist Jack Anderson.[5] She went on to work for over 25 years as a reporter for many major newspapers, including The Columbus Dispatch, The Daily Independent, and the Chicago Tribune.[4][5] She joined the staff of the Chicago Tribune in late 1998.[5] She was formerly employed as a cultural critic for the Chicago Tribune, but left her job in 2012 to write full-time.[2][6]

Keller won the annual

Utica, Illinois tornado outbreak, published by the Chicago Tribune in April 2004. The jury called it a "gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a deadly 10-second tornado".[1]
The Tribune has won many Pulitzers but Keller's prize was its first win for feature writing.

In 2008, Keller wrote a nonfiction book that detailed the cultural impact of the

Barry Award
for Best First Mystery.

Books

External videos
video icon Presentation by Keller about Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel at the Printers Row Book Fair, June 8, 2008, C-SPAN
  • Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It (Viking, 2008)
  • Back Home (Egmont, 2009), named by Booklist as one of the top ten YA debut novels of the year

Bell Elkins mysteries

  1. A Killing in the Hills (Minotaur, 2012);
    ISBN 978-1250028754
  2. Bitter River (Minotaur, 2013)
    ISBN 978-1250076212
  3. Summer of the Dead (Minotaur, 2014)
    ISBN 978-1250044730
  4. Last Ragged Breath (Minotaur, 2015)
    ISBN 978-1250044761
  5. Sorrow Road (Minotaur, 2016)
    ISBN 978-1250089588
  6. Fast Falls the Night (Minotaur, 2017)
    ISBN 9781250089618
  7. Bone on Bone (Minotaur, 2018)
    ISBN 978-1250190925
  8. The Cold Way Home (Minotaur, 2019)
    ISBN 978-1250191229

Bell Elkins e-novellas

  • The Devil's Stepdaughter (Minotaur, 2014)
  • A Haunting of the Bones (Minotaur, 2014)
  • Ghost Roll (Minotaur, 2015)
  • Evening Street (Minotaur, 2015)

The Dark Intercept

  1. The Dark Intercept (Tor Teen, 2017)
    ISBN 9780765387622
  2. Dark Mind Rising (Tor Teen, 2018)
    ISBN 9780765387653
  3. Dark Star Calling (Tor Teen, 2019)
    ISBN 9780765387691

References

  1. ^ a b "2005 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prize. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d "Conversations with Julia Keller". WV Living. Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  3. ^ Adams, Noah. "In Mystery Series's W.Va. River Town, There's No Escape From Terror". NPR. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d Cunningham, Bob. "Mystery revealed: Longtime Ohio journalist always had her sights set on thrillers". The Toledo Blade. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Julia Keller of Chicago Tribune". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  6. ^ Moos, Julie (15 May 2012). "For writers, 'plans aren't worth a damn, but planning is essential'". Poynter. Retrieved 29 November 2016.

External links

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