“The more you look at history, the more you see it happen over and over again.”
Storyteller Kate Winkler Dawson delivers her take on intersection of the theme NOW and creativity. She is a narrative nonfiction author whose primary genre is True Crime. As she researches historical true crime, she sees the same trends happening in a contemporary context now. Sheâs successfully told her stories through multiple media formatsâbooks, journalism, documentary film, teaching, and podcasting. Her journey has been about âfiguring out what youâre passionate about.â She details the pivots in her life which have led to an illustrious career in true crime storytelling.
About the speaker
Kate Winkler Dawson is a crime historian whose work has appeared in The New York Times, WCBS News and ABC News Radio, PBS NewsHour, and Nightline. She is the creator and host of two hit podcasts: Tenfold More Wicked and Wicked Words.
Dawson is the author of the forthcoming book All That Is Wicked, which will be released on October 4. She is also the author of American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI, Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City, and is a professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin.
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