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Harold Schechter
Harold Schechter is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He attended the State University of New York in Buffalo where his PhD director was Leslie Fiedler. He is professor of American literature and popular culture at Queens College of the City University of New York.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. 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.
== Survey of Harold Schechter's Career ==
Schechter is an Associate Professor of English at Queens College, New York 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.〔
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''
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