David Fulmer is the author of five critically-acclaimed novels with Harcourt Books.
"Chasing the Devil's Tail" was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Barry Award, and a Falcon Award, was on Borders' “Best of 2003 List,” and won a 2002 Shamus Award. It has been translated into Japanese and Italian, and is about to be published in French, along with this other two Storyville books.
"Jass" was nominated for the “Best of 2005” lists by Library Journal, Deadly Pleasures Magazine, and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and won the 2005 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Fiction.
"Rampart Street" was included as one of New York Magazine's “Best Novels You've Never Read” and the audiobook version won the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction.
His fourth novel, "The Dying Crapshooter's Blues," was published in 2007 and received the BookPage “Ice Pick of the Month Award” among other plaudits. "The Blue Door" was published this past January. His sixth novel, "Lost River," will be released by Harcourt in December.
All his books have received superlative reviews from the The Times-Picayune, The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, BookList, Kirkus Reviews, The Detroit News, The Boston Globe, The Tennessean, and numerous other publications.
He has written about blues, jazz, and other subjects for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Southline, Atlanta Magazine, Paste Magazine, City Life, Markee, Blues Access, Il Giornale, Goodlife, Advertising Age, The Atlanta Tribune, Creative Loafing, BackStage, and various trade publications.
His production credits include the government of Trinidad and Tobago, the Dekalb County Commission, Public Broadcasting Atlanta, the Sports Car Club of America, National Public Radio, the American LeMans Series, StudioComm,The Panoz Schools, and Georgia Public Television. Video Librarian called Fulmer’s documentary “Blind Willie's Blues,” “nothing less than the economic, social, and historical evolution of America's indigenous music.” It earned a nomination for a W.C. Handy “Keeping the Blues Alive” Award in 1998.
David Fulmer lives in Atlanta with his daughter, Italia.
Book(s):
• Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans (Harvest Books, 2003)
Appearance(s):
• Saturday, 1:45-2:30, Presbyterian Chapel
• Sunday, 12:00-12:45, Old Courthouse
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