John Schultz (writer)
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John Schultz is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. He is also a teacher of writing, the creator of the Story Workshop
method of writing instruction, and a professor and chair of the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College
, Chicago
. He was born in 1932 in the Ozark region of Missouri
, served in the Korean War
, and then worked in Chicago as a writer and teacher.
, teaching many writers and training teachers in the Workshop techniques. The Story Workshop method "focuses on helping you hear your own individual voice and provides a supportive, interactive, and challenging environment for developing your reading, writing, listening, speaking, critical thinking, and imaginative problem-solving capacities." The Story Workshop Institute was founded to bring the method to elementary and secondary classrooms and other forums for writing instruction.
for the Evergreen Review
and later wrote No One Was Killed (1969), a first-person account of his experiences both in the International Amphitheater where the convention was held and on the streets and in the parks of Chicago
where antiwar protesters gathered, rallied, and clashed with police.
He also witnessed the subsequent trial of eight participants for conspiracy and inciting riot (the Chicago Seven
), which he wrote about in Motion Will Be Denied, (1972), later republished as The Chicago Conspiracy Trial.
Story Workshop
The Story Workshop Method is a method of teaching writing originated in 1965 by John Schultz. The Story Workshop Institute was founded to bring the method to elementary and secondary classrooms and other forums for writing instruction...
method of writing instruction, and a professor and chair of the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College
Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago is one of the largest art colleges in the United States with nearly 12,000 students pursuing degrees within 120 undergraduate and graduate programs...
, Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
. He was born in 1932 in the Ozark region of Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
, served in the Korean War
Korean War
The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...
, and then worked in Chicago as a writer and teacher.
The Story Workshop
Schultz originated the Story Workshop method of teaching writing in 1965. He practiced the method at Columbia CollegeColumbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago is one of the largest art colleges in the United States with nearly 12,000 students pursuing degrees within 120 undergraduate and graduate programs...
, teaching many writers and training teachers in the Workshop techniques. The Story Workshop method "focuses on helping you hear your own individual voice and provides a supportive, interactive, and challenging environment for developing your reading, writing, listening, speaking, critical thinking, and imaginative problem-solving capacities." The Story Workshop Institute was founded to bring the method to elementary and secondary classrooms and other forums for writing instruction.
The 1968 Democratic National Convention
Schultz covered the 1968 Democratic National Convention1968 Democratic National Convention
The 1968 Democratic National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, from August 26 to August 29, 1968. Because Democratic President Lyndon Johnson had announced he would not seek a second term, the purpose of the convention was to...
for the Evergreen Review
Evergreen Review
Evergreen Review is a U.S.-based literary magazine founded by Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press. It existed in print from 1957 through 1973, and was re-launched online in 1998...
and later wrote No One Was Killed (1969), a first-person account of his experiences both in the International Amphitheater where the convention was held and on the streets and in the parks of Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
where antiwar protesters gathered, rallied, and clashed with police.
He also witnessed the subsequent trial of eight participants for conspiracy and inciting riot (the Chicago Seven
Chicago Seven
The Chicago Seven were seven defendants—Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner—charged with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to protests that took place in Chicago, Illinois on the occasion of the 1968...
), which he wrote about in Motion Will Be Denied, (1972), later republished as The Chicago Conspiracy Trial.
List of works
- The Tongues of Men (Chicago: Big Table Publishing, 1969): three short novels and eight short stories
- No One Was Killed: Documentation and Meditation: Convention Week, Chicago--August 1968 (Chicago: Big Table Publishing, 1969; reprinted as No One Was Killed: The Democratic National Convention, August 1968, with a new introduction by Todd Gitlin and a new afterword by the author, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, ISBN 9780226740782)
- Motion Will Be Denied: A New Report on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. (New York: Morrow, 1972; reprinted as The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Revised Edition, with an introduction by Carl Oglesby, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, ISBN 9780226741147)
- Writing from Start to Finish : The Story Workshop Basic Forms Rhetoric-Reader edited by John Schultz (Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1982)
External links
- An excerpt from No One Was Killed: The Democratic National Convention, August 1968
- An excerpt from The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Revised Edition