William Todd Schultz Explained

William Todd Schultz (born 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 "" (2013).

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

External links

• Website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Todd Schultz, PhD. 3 March 2014. Pacific University. March 25, 2016.
2. 10461669 . 86 . 2 . The riddle that doesn't exist: Ludwig Wittgenstein's transmogrification of death . 1999 . Psychoanal Rev . 281–303 . Schultz . WT.
3. 23539846. An "Orpheus Complex" in Two Writers-of-Loss. Biography. 19. 4. 371–393. Schultz. William Todd. 1996. 10.1353/bio.2010.0742. 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. 10.1353/bio.2010.0270. 161438469.
5. Web site: APA PsycNet.
6. Schultz, William Todd (2005). Handbook of Psychobiography. New York/London: Oxford University Press.
7. Web site: "Inner Lives" (Oxford Psychobiography Series). 5 October 2010.
8. Web site: Erik Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media.