Nationality Canadian Genre Non-fiction, fiction Name Caitlin Rother | Period 1987-present Subject True crime, biography Role Author | |
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Born December 6, 1962 (age 61)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada ( 1962-12-06 ) Occupation true crime author, novelist, journalist Notable works Lost Girls
My Life, Deleted Education Medill School of Journalism (1987), University of California, Berkeley (1984) Books Lost Girls, Then No One Can Have Her, Poisoned Love, Naked Addiction, Twisted Triangle: A Famous | ||
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Caitlin Rother (born December 6, 1962 in Montreal, Canada) is a New York Times bestselling non-fiction, true crime American-Canadian author and journalist who lives in San Diego, California.
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- Literarysalon learning prose from pros caitlin rother true crime author episode 3
- True Crime author Caitlin Rother
- Biography and education
- Career
- Appearances
- Awards
- Non fiction
- Fiction
- References
True Crime author Caitlin Rother
Biography and education
As a toddler, she moved with her family from the Canadian province of Quebec to California. She attended La Jolla High School. In 1984, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1987, she graduated with a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Career
In the late 1980s, she wrote for the Berkshire Eagle and the Springfield Union-News in Massachusetts. She moved back to California and, in 1992, was hired by the Los Angeles Daily News after working a year as a full-time freelancer for the Los Angeles Times. Beginning in 1993, she worked as a metro news and investigative reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune. She left the paper in 2006 to write full-time as an author.
Rother co-authored the memoir of Scott Bolzan, a former NFL player, titled My Life, Deleted about how Bolzan rebuilt his life after suffering permanent retrograde amnesia. The book was released by HarperCollins in October 2011. It made the New York Times bestseller list for two weeks on October 23, 2011 at #16 for ebooks non-fiction and #29 for combined hardcover and ebooks non-fiction, and on October 30 at #29 for combined hardcover and ebooks non-fiction.
In July 2012, Rother wrote the book Lost Girls about convicted killer and sexual predator John Albert Gardner and his motivation for murdering San Diego-area teenagers Chelsea King and Amber Dubois. It was released by Kensington Books.
She teaches creative non-fiction, creative writing and journalism at the University of California, San Diego extension.
Appearances
She has appeared on national television and radio shows, including Nancy Grace, E! channel's "Women Who Kill," Investigation Discovery channel, Oxygen network's "Snapped," "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren," and The Jay Thomas Show and “America at Night” radio programs.
Awards
She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the San Diego Union-Tribune while on staff at the newspaper.