Julia Keller

Julia Keller (* in Huntington , West Virginia ) is an American writer , journalist, and university lecturer . In 2005 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the " Feature Writing Award".

Life

Julia Keller grew up as the daughter of mathematician James R. Keller, a professor at Marshall University, and his wife Patricia, an English teacher at Chesapeake High School in Chesapeake, Ohio, in her native Huntington. In 1976 she completed her bachelor's and 1981 master's degree in English literature, both at Marshall University. She wrote her master's thesis on Henry Roth's novel Call it Sleep . In 1995 she received her PhD in English Literature from Ohio State University . In her dissertation A poetics of literary biography: The creation of "Virginia Woolf" she dealt with literary biographies, especially in the case of the British writer Virginia Woolf . From 1998 to 1999 she was a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University .

Keller began her career as a journalist with an internship with the American reporter Jack Anderson . She then wrote for the Ashland Daily Independent and was a journalist for Columbus Dispatch until 1998 , often writing about culture and writing several television reviews. From 1998 to 2012 she worked for the Chicago Tribune , also mainly for cultural articles . With a three-part report on the tornado outbreak of April 20, 2004 in Utica , Illinois , she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the field of " Feature Writing " a year later . In 2012, Keller ended her work as a journalist in favor of writing and teaching.

Since 2012 she has been a professor at the EW Scripps School of Journalism , a faculty at Ohio University .

Works (selection)

Novels

• A Killing in the Hills (2012)
  • In the dark valley , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-47992-4
• Bitter River (2013)
  • Am kalten Fluss , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-47993-1
• Summer of the Dead (2014)
  • Blutroter Sommer, Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-442-48407-2
• Last Ragged Breath (2015)
• Sorrow Road (2016)

Non-fiction

• A poetics of literary biography: The creation of "Virginia Woolf" (1996)
• Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It (2008)

Awards

• 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
• Barry Award 2013 for Best First Novel for "A Killing in the Hills"

Web links

• Literature by and about Julia Keller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website
• Julia Keller on scrippsjschool.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dave Wellman: Julia Keller to deliver commencement speech at Marshall University , marshall.edu , April 13, 2011, accessed September 15, 2014
2. ↑ Ryan Kelley: Three Ohio State degrees win Pulitzer Prizes ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ohio-state.edu , page 1, accessed September 15, 2014 
3. ↑ Meet the Fall Kickoff Speaker ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , cwip.org , accessed September 15, 2014  
4. ↑ Laura Treacy Bentley: Conversations with Julia Keller ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , wvliving.com , August 29, 2012, accessed September 15, 2014 
5. ^ Robert Stewart: Julia Keller to join faculty , scrippsjschool.org , May 15, 2012, accessed September 15, 2014