Biography
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Duane Schultz earned his undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University, a masters’ degree from Syracuse University, and a PhD in social psychology from American University in Washington, DC. He has written three college-level textbooks, now in their 11th editions, which have been translated into eight languages, as well as several other books in psychology. He received research grants from the Office of Naval Research and the National Institute of Mental Health and published a comparative psychological study of the lives and careers of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
After a successful teaching career at Mary Washington College, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and lecturing in the US and Europe, he left academics to devote full time to writing. He lives in Clearwater, Florida.
Duane Schultz is the author of two novels—Sabers in the Wind: A Novel of World War II (Fawcett/Ballantine, 1980) and Glory Enough for All: The Battle of the Crater: A Novel of the Civil War (St. Martin’s Press, 1993)—and more than three dozen books and articles on aspects of the US Indian Wars, the Civil War, and World War II.
A highlight of his research on the World War II books was the opportunity to interview former POWs, who bravely and generously shared their stories with him. Two of the World War II books were the basis for major television documentaries. Several were selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and have appeared in book club editions, paperback editions, audiobook editions, ebooks, and foreign-language editions.
Duane Schultz’s nonfiction works include the following:
Glory Enough for All: The Battle of the Crater: A Novel of the Civil War
St. Martin’s Press, 1993
Month of the Freezing Moon: The Sand Creek Massacre, November 1864
St. Martin’s Press, 1990
Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862
St. Martin’s Press, 1992
Quantrill’s War: The Life and Times of William Clarke Quantrill, 1837-1865
St. Martin’s Press, 1996
The Dahlgren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War
W. W. Norton, 1998
The Most Glorious Fourth: Vicksburg and Gettysburg, July 4th, 1863
W. W. Norton, 2002
George Armstrong Custer
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
The Fate of War: Fredericksburg, 1862
Westholme Publishing
Wake Island: The Heroic Gallant Fight
St. Martin’s Press, 1978
Hero of Bataan: The Story of General Jonathan M. Wainwright
St. Martin’s Press, 1981
The Last Battle Station: The Story of the USS Houston
St. Martin’s Press, 1985
The Maverick War: Chennault and the Flying Tigers
St. Martin’s Press, 1987
The Doolittle Raid
St. Martin’s Press, 1988
Into the Fire: Ploesti: The Most Fateful Mission of World War II
Westholme Publishing, 2007
Crossing the Rapido: A Tragedy of World War II
Westholme Publishing, 2010
Coming Through Fire: George Armstrong Custer and Chief Black Kettle
Westholme Publishing, 2012
Evans Carlson, Marine Raider: The Man Who Commanded America’s First Special Forces
Westholme Publishing, 2014 hardcover edition; 2017 paperback edition
