Editing Harold Schechter (section)

{{short description|American true crime writer (born 1948)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|6|28}}
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| occupation = True Crime Writer/Author, Professor Emeritus at [[Queens College, CUNY]].
| nationality = American
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| education = [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]
| alma_mater = [[City College of New York]], [[State University of New York]]
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| genre = [[True crime]], fiction
| subject = [[Serial killer]]s, [[Popular culture studies|popular culture]]
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| children = 2, including [[Lauren Oliver]]
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| website = {{URL|https://haroldschechter.com}}
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'''Harold Schechter''' (born June 28, 1948) is an American [[true crime]] [[writer]] who specializes in [[serial killers]]. He is a Professor Emeritus at [[Queens College, City University of New York]] where he taught classes in American literature and myth criticism for forty-two years.<ref>{{cite web |title=Queens College Emeritus Professors list |url=http://english.qc.cuny.edu/people/emeritus/ |website=Queens College |access-date=29 November 2020}}</ref> Schechter's essays have appeared in numerous publications including ''The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times'', and the ''International Herald Tribune''. He is the editor of the [[Library of America]] volume, ''True Crime: An American Anthology''. His newest book, published in September 2023, is ''[[Murderabilia]]: A History of Crime in 100 Objects.''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schechter |first=Harold |title=Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects |publisher=[[Workman Publishing Company]] |year=2023 |isbn=9781523515295 |language=en}}</ref>