Lee Gutkind

Creative Nonfiction Writer

Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania US
Email: 
information@creativenonfiction.org
Website: 
www.leegutkind.com
Twitter/X: 
@leegutkind

Author's Bio

Lee Gutkind is an American writer, speaker, and literary innovator, founder of the literary magazine Creative Nonfiction, the first and the largest literary journal to publish narrative/creative nonfiction exclusively. Spotlighted in Vanity Fair Magazine in 1997 as “the Godfather behind creative nonfiction” Gutkind has been its most active advocate and practitioner both as editor and writer. Gutkind has written or edited more than 30 books, immersing himself in diverse worlds for months and years and producing dramatic and intimate creative nonfiction portraits about subjects as rich and varied as the motorcycle subculture, child and adolescent mental illness, baseball umpires, veterinary medicine and organ transplantation. Currently, he is Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Consortium for Science Policy and Outcomes and Professor at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Rage & Reconciliation: Inspiring a Health Care Revolution (Southern Methodist University Press, 2005)
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In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004)
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On Nature: Great Writers on the Great Outdoors (Tarcher, 2002)
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Healing: A Creative Nonfiction Reader (Tarcher, 2001)
,
Lessons in Persuasion (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000)
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The Essayist at Work: Profiles of Creative Nonfiction Writers (Heinemann Books, 1998)
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Surviving Crisis (Tarcher, 1997)
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Our Roots Grow Deeper Than We Know (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985)
Books:
Becoming a Doctor (W. W. Norton & Company, 2010)
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Truckin' With Sam (SUNY Press, 2010)
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Almost Human: Making Robots Think (W. W. Norton & Company, 2007)
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Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather (University of Nebraska Press, 2003)
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The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999)
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The Veterinarian's Touch: Profiles of Life Among the Animals (Owl Books, 1998)
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An Unspoken Art : Profiles of Veterinary Life (Henry Holt, 1997)
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The Art of Creative Nonfiction (Wiley, 1997)
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Creative Nonfiction: How to Live it and Write It (Chicago Review Press, 1996)
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Stuck In Time: The Tragedy of Childhood Mental Illness (Henry Holt, 1994)
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One Children's Place, Inside a Children's Hospital (Plume, 1992)
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Many Sleepless Nights: The World of Organ Transplantation (W. W. Norton & Company, 1990)
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The People of Penn's Woods West (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984)
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God's Helicopter (Slow Loris Press, 1983)
Journal:
Creative Nonfiction

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania
Raised in: 
Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Jul 01, 2019