Lee Gutkind
Lee Gutkind, founder and editor of the popular journal, Creative Nonfiction, has performed as a clown for Ringling Brothers, scrubbed with heart and liver transplant surgeons, wandered the country on a motorcycle and experienced psychotherapy with a distressed family—all as research for eight books and numerous profiles and essays.
His award-winning book Many Sleepless Nights, an inside chronicle of the world of organ transplantation, has been reprinted in Italian, Korean, and Japanese editions, while his most recent nonfiction book, An Unspoken Art, soon to be published in the Republic of China, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. The University of Southern Illinois Press recently re-issued Gutkind's book about major league umpires, The Best Seat in Baseball, but You Have To Stand, which USA Today called "unprecedented, revealing, startling and poignant."
Former director of the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh and currently Professor of English, Lee Gutkind has pioneered the teaching of creative nonfiction, conducting workshops and presenting readings throughout the United States. Also a novelist and filmmaker, Gutkind is editor of The Creative Nonfiction Reader, a series of anthologies, from Tarcher/Putnam, Emerging Writers in Creative Nonfiction book series from Duquesne University Press and Director of the Mid-Atlantic Creative Nonfiction Writers' Conference at Goucher College in Baltimore.