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Genre
  
True crime, fiction

Education
  
University at Buffalo

Spouse
  
Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Harold Schechter


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Occupation
  
True Crime Writer/Author, Professor of Literature at Queens College, CUNY.

Movies
  
H. H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer

Children
  
Lauren Oliver, Elizabeth Schechter

Books
  
The Serial Killer Files, The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial, Deranged, Depraved, Fiend

Similar People
  
Kimiko Hahn, Lauren Oliver, H H Holmes, John Borowski

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Harold Schechter is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He is a professor of American literature and popular culture at Queens College, City University of New York. Schechter’s essays have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and the International Herald Tribune. He is the editor of the Library of America volume, True Crime: An American Anthology. His newest book, The Mad Sculptor (about a sensational triple murder at Beekman Place in New York City in 1937), was published in February 2014.

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Education

He attended the State University of New York at Buffalo where his PhD director was Leslie Fiedler.

Career

Schechter is an Associate Professor of English at Queens College, and specializes in American true crime, specifically serial murders of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using primary sources such as newspaper clippings and court records, he supplies thorough documentation of every case he profiles, while still managing to create compelling narratives and fully fleshed-out characters. In addition to his work as a crime historian, Schechter is the author of an acclaimed series of detective novels based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

In addition to his historical crime books and mystery fiction, Schechter has written extensively on American popular culture. In The Bosom Serpent: Folklore and Popular Art, he explores the relationship between contemporary commercial entertainment and the narrative archetypes of traditional folklore. Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment places the current controversy over media violence in a broad historical context. Examining everything from Victorian murder ballads to the productions of the nineteenth-century Grand Guignol, the book makes the somewhat contrarian argument that today’s popular entertainment is actually less violent than the gruesome diversions of the supposedly halcyon past.

Praise

Publishers Weekly has called Schechter a "serial killer expert", a "deft writer", praising his ability to recreate "from documentation the thoughts and perspectives of long-dead figures." PW called Schechter’s book The Devil’s Gentleman "a riveting tale of murder, seduction and tabloid journalism run rampant in New York not so different from today".

Booklist called his book Depraved a "first-rate true crime and first-rate popular history." Writing in the New York Times reviewer James Polk praised Nevermore, the first in Schechter's Poe mystery series, for its "entertaining premise . . . supported by rich period atmospherics."

Personal life

Schechter is married to poet Kimiko Hahn. He has two daughters from a previous marriage: the writer Lauren Oliver, and professor of philosophy Elizabeth Schechter.

References

Harold Schechter Wikipedia


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