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David Fulmer (born April 3, 1950) is an American writer, journalist and filmmaker.

Biography

Born Thurston David Fulmer, to Thurston and Flora (née Prizzi) Fulmer in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. Fulmer worked as a reporter and photographer at The Union County Journal in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania after high school. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1971 and became a photographer in the USAREUR Intelligence Center in Heidelberg, Germany. His location was one of those bombed by the Baader-Meinhof Gang in May 1972. He was married to Suzanne Leona Mercier from 1974 -1979. Fulmer received a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Georgia State University in 1979. He currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his daughter Italia.

Career

Fulmer’s career spans multiple media disciplines: As an author, he has written seven novels in the mystery-thriller genre since 2001. As a journalist, he has written about music and other subjects for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Southline, Atlanta Magazine, Paste Magazine, City Life, Markee, Blues Access, Il Giornale, Goodlife, Advertising Age, The Atlanta Tribune, Creative Loafing, and BackStage. As a filmmaker, Fulmer wrote and produced the documentary Blind Willie's Blues (1997)^[1], which Video Librarian called “nothing less than the economic, social, and historical evolution of America's indigenous music.” He also wrote and produced the Americana audio series for National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate WABE-FM and WMLB-AM, both in Atlanta. As a communications professional, he worked in the motorsports industry as Media Director for the Panoz Schools and Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia (1988-1999).

Works

In 2001, Fulmer’s first novel, Chasing the Devil’s Tail, was released by Poisoned Pen Press. Harcourt Books purchased the paperback rights in 2003, and then contracted with Fulmer for five more novels. Two of Fulmer’s novels won national literary awards: Chasing the Devil’s Tail won the Shamus Award (2002) ^[2] and Rampart Street won the Benjamin Franklin Award^[3] (2007). Fulmer’s work has received high praise from such publications as Publishers Weekly^[4], The New York Times^[5], The Washington Post^[6], USA Today^[7], The Boston Globe^[8], The Atlanta Journal-Constitution^[9], The San Francisco Chronicle^[10],Booklist^[11], Library Journal^[12], and Kirkus Reviews^[13]. In 2009, Fulmer’s seventh novel, The Last Time, was published first as a digital eBook by Stay Thirsty Press directly to Amazon’s Kindle Book platform for reading on the Kindle, iPhone, and iPod touch.

Novels

• Chasing the Devil's Tail (Hardcover), Poisoned Pen Press, November 2001
• Chasing the Devil's Tail (Trade paperback), Harcourt Books, June 2003; Published also in Japan and Italy. French publication, September 2008; Blackstone Audiobook, May 2007
• Jass (Hardcover), Harcourt Books, January 2005 (Trade paperback), January 2006; French publication 2009
• Rampart Street (Hardcover), Harcourt Books, January 2006; (Trade paperback) January 2007; BBC America Audiobook, January 2006; French publication 2010
• The Dying Crapshooter's Blues (Hardcover), Harcourt Books, January 2007; (Trade paperback) January 2008; Recorded Books Audiobook
• The Blue Door (Hardcover), Harcourt Books, January 2008; (Trade paperback) January 2009
• Lost River (Hardcover), Harcourt Books, November 2008; (Trade paperback) January 2010
• The Last Time (Digital Kindle Book), Stay Thirsty Press, June 2009

Short Fiction

• black cat bone, Blues Access, Spring 1997
• Back o' Town Blues, Flesh and Blood, 2003^[14]
• Algiers, New Orleans Noir, Akashic Books, April 2007^[15]

Magazines and Newspapers

Since 1985, Fulmer has contributed to periodicals, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, BackStage, Blues Access, City Life, Paste Magazine, The Atlanta Tribune, Southline, Atlanta Magazine, Creative Loafing, Advertising Age, Business Atlanta, and Il Giornale.

Awards

Chasing the Devil’s Tail

• Winner, AudioFile Golden Earphones Award, 2008
• Nominee, 2004 Falcon Award
• Borders Books "Best of 2003 List"
• Nominee, 2001 LA Times Book Prize
• Winner, 2002 Shamus Award^[2]
• Nominee, 2001 Barry Awards
• "Best New Series," Booklist
• "Best of 2001 List," January Magazine
• "Hottest Beach Read" (Summer 2003) Books Read Lately

Jass

• 2006 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Fiction
• "Best of 2005 List" - Library Journal
• "Best of 2005 List" - The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• "Best of 2005 List" - Deadly Pleasures Magazine

Rampart Street

• 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Adult Fiction Audiobook^[16]
• New York Magazine "Best Novel You've Never Read"

The Dying Crapshooter's Blues

• "Ice Pick of the Month" - BookList, January 2007

The Blue Door

• "2008 Best of the Shelf" - Atlanta Magazine

References

1. ^ http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADA021D22BA9D2&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
2. ^ ^{a b} http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv72.html#2002
3. ^ http://www.ibpa-online.org/pubresources/benfrank2007_finalist.aspx
4. ^ CHASING THE DEVIL'S TAIL. Publishers Weekly.248. 42 (15 Oct. 2001): p49.
5. ^ Taylor, Ihsan. Paperback Row. The New York Times Book Review.(11 Mar. 2007): Book Review Desk: p28(L). Rampart Street
6. ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/24/AR2008022401699.html
7. ^ http://content.usatoday.com/topics/article/Tom+Anderson/0aTT2Q30Kjbkq/0
8. ^ http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1078DB3D9EEE839D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
9. ^ http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/02/15/fulmer0215bk.html
10. ^ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/08/RVGO9GENTG1.DTL&type=books
11. ^ Ott, Bill. Lost River. Booklist.105. 6 (15 Nov. 2008): p20.
12. ^ Vicarel, Jo Ann. Mystery. Library Journal.132. 20 (1 Dec. 2007): p91. The Blue Door
13. ^ Fulmer, David: Lost River. Kirkus Reviews.(1 Oct. 2008):
14. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=GB3AP5eioGkC&pg=PA26&dq=david+fulmer&lr=
15. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=1LVcIn2JZdcC&pg=PA56&dq=david+fulmer
16. ^ http://www.ibpa-online.org/pubresources/benfrank2007_finalist.aspx

External links

• Stay Thirsty Lures Veteran Writers, Publishers Weekly, by Edward Nawotka, June 29, 2009.[1]
• The Last Time by David Fulmer, staythirsty.com, June 2009.[2]
• David Fulmer, author of The Blue Door, Interview, Words To Mouth, May 15, 2008.[3]