Dave Cullen

Award-winning writer and journalist Dave Cullen has worked as an infantry soldier, computer systems analyst, and undergraduate instructor, and has reported from twenty-six countries around the globe. Currently a staff writer for Vanity Fair, Cullen has written for the New York Times, Buzzfeed, and The New Republic, among other news and culture outlets, and is the author of Columbine and Soldiers First, two book-length works of investigative reporting. Cullen worked for ten years on the manuscript for Columbine—he was on the scene of the attack within an hour of the first shots fired, and his years of tireless research, interviews, and writing led to the creation of a text which humanizes and complicates two of the most notorious killers of the twentieth century, while clearing away the fictions surrounding the massacre to get at the truth and the facts. For Columbine, Cullen won the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Allan Poe Award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. Cullen currently lives in New York City.