Dave Cullen in Conversation with David L. Ulin (2009): Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

by Dave Cullen, David L. Ulin (Narrator)

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year. David L. Ulin is book editor of the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of The Myth of Solid Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith and he is the editor of Another Writing from Los Angeles and Writing Los A Literary Anthology.

Dave Cullen is the author of Columbine, a portrait of the killers, the victims and the community that suffered one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century. He is considered a leading authority on the Columbine shooting.

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Published August 28, 2009

About the author

Dave Cullen wrote the definitive account of COLUMBINE, plus PARKLAND: BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT, both New York Times bestsellers. The former gay infantry grunt is completing a book on two gay soldiers 25 years in the making. It depicts the arc of the gay rights struggle through the lens of two extraordinary lives — which he has been immersed in since 2000.

​Columbine has made two lists of the best 25 and 30 books of the quarter century, over a dozen Best True Crime Books of All Time, won several major awards, including the Edgar, Goodreads Choice Award, and Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and made 2 dozen Best of 2009 lists. It has been translated into nine languages.​

Dave has written for New York Times, Atlantic, Vanity Fair, London Times, Politico, Guardian, Washington Post, New Republic, BuzzFeed, etc., and has appeared on most of the major networks in the US, and across Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. He lives in Chicago and is uncle to 11 cool humans and 1 adorable corgi, Bobby Sneakers.