科伦拜校园事件是1999年4月20日在美国科罗拉多州杰佛逊郡科伦拜中学(Columbine High School)发生的校园枪击事件。两名青少年学生—埃里克·哈里斯(Eric Harris)和迪伦·克莱伯德(Dylan Klebold)配备枪械和爆炸物进入校园，枪杀了12名学生和1名教师，造成其他24人受伤，两人接着自杀身亡。这起事件被视为美国历史上最血腥校园枪击事件之一。

Dave Cullen is the author of the upcoming PARKLAND, and the New York Times bestseller COLUMBINE.

After PARKLAND will come a book on two gay soldiers, 20 years in the making, which was nearing completion when Parkland struck.

Dave has written for New York Times, BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, New Republic, Times of London, Newsweek, Guardian, Washington Post, Lapham's Quarterly, Slate, Salon, The Millions, and Daily Beast.

(Columbine is summarized concisely in this three minute Columbine shooting intro video (book trailer.))

More on my gay soldiers book. To be notified when it's published, email dave@davecullen.com with subject line "notify".

Dave spent ten years writing and researching Columbine. He was driven by two questions: why did they kill, and what became of the survivors? The surprise was that most of what we "know" is wrong. It wasn't about the jocks, goths or the Trenchcoat Mafia. The killers didn't even see themselves as school shooters: their primary focus was the bombs.

Columbine spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists. It won the Edgar Award, Barnes & Noble's Discover Award, the Goodreads Choice Award, and The Truth About The Fact's Literary Nonfiction Book of the Year Award. It was a finalist for the LA Times Book Award, the ALA's Alex Award, the Audie Award, and the MPIBA Book Award. Columbine was named to two dozen Best of 2009 lists, including the New York Times, LA Times and Publishers Weekly. It was declared Top Education Book of 2009 by the American School Board Journal.

Dave lived in Denver while writing and researching the book. He recently moved to New York City and travels extensively to high schools and colleges.

For anyone looking for more info, some links: Columbine intro video, my Columbine research site, Columbine Teacher’s Guide and gay soldiers book.

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Dave's second book, Soldiers First, is due from HarperCollins, in 2019:

Two gay colonels quietly battle for love and freedom inside the great American war machine rumbling through the Middle East. A love story and a soldier's story — at war.

Written by a former solider, who has followed these soldiers a decade and a half, Soldiers First tells their gripping story, before, during and after the policy that played havoc with their lives.