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William Todd Schultz

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William Todd Schultz (born c. 1969) is an American writer specializing in biographies and psychobiographies of artists, based in Portland, Oregon. Schultz received a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Lewis and Clark College in 1985, an MA in Personality Psychology from the University of California in 1987, and a PhD in Personality Psychology from the University of California in 1993.[1]

Schultz's first psychobiographical subject was James Agee. Other early articles focused on Ludwig Wittgenstein,[2] Jack Kerouac,[3] Roald Dahl,[4] Franz Kafka, and Oscar Wilde.[5] In 2005, Schultz conceived and edited Oxford's Handbook of Psychobiography.[6] He curates Oxford's "Inner Lives" series,[7] consisting of personality profiles of provocative artists and historical figures.

Schultz has published three books, all on artists: "Tiny Terror: Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers" (2011); "An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus" (2011); and "Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith" (2013).

In 2015, Schultz was awarded the Erik Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media.[8]

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  1. ^ "Todd Schultz, PhD". Pacific University. 3 March 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2016.
  2. ^ Schultz, WT (1999). "The riddle that doesn't exist: Ludwig Wittgenstein's transmogrification of death". Psychoanal Rev. 86 (2): 281–303. PMID 10461669.
  3. ^ Schultz, William Todd (1996). "An "Orpheus Complex" in Two Writers-of-Loss". Biography. 19 (4): 371–393. doi:10.1353/bio.2010.0742. JSTOR 23539846. S2CID 161725527.
  4. ^ Todd Schultz, William (1998-09-01). "Finding Fate's Father: Some Life History Influences on Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Biography. 21 (4): 463–481. doi:10.1353/bio.2010.0270. S2CID 161438469.
  5. ^ "APA PsycNet".
  6. ^ Schultz, William Todd (2005). Handbook of Psychobiography. New York/London: Oxford University Press.
  7. ^ ""Inner Lives" (Oxford Psychobiography Series)". 5 October 2010.
  8. ^ "Erik Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media".
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