Harold Schechter

Harold Schechter is Professor Emeritus at Queens College, the City University of New York, where he taught American literature for forty-two years. His essays on crime, psychopathology and media violence have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the International Herald Tribune among others. He has written for network and cable television. Among his more than forty published books are a series of historical true-crime narratives about America’s most infamous serial killers, several encyclopedic works (The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, and Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of). He is a two-time Edgar Award nominee.  His most recent book is Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects.

Website: haroldschechter.com