A Crime Fiction Reader Craft and Criticism

David Schmid is Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, USA. He is the author of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture (2005), and the editor of Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction (co-edited with Andrew Pepper, 2015) and Violence in American Popular Culture (2016). He is the founder and director of the American Literature Association's Crime Fiction Group and an editorial board member for Celebrity Studies.