Barbara Guest
Richard Eliot Lourie
Richard Eliot Lourie, American writer. Recipient Camargo fellowship Camargo Foundation, 1991, Joseph Henry Jackson award Jackson Committee, 1969, Jurzykowski award Kosciuszka Foundation, 1993, Sneath Poetry award Robert Lowell Boston University, 1960. Wrote position papers for Michael Dukakis presidential campaign, 1988.
Background
Lourie, Richard Eliot was born on July 16, 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Son of Samuel Lewis and Evelyn (Cantor) Lourie.
Education
Career
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Assistant professor University California, Santa Cruz, California, 1969-1972. Scholar in residence Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1973-1974. Research fellow Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975-1977, 83-85.
Writer in residence Emerson College, Boston, 1975. Assistant professor University Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 1975. Freelance writer, translator, film-maker, since 1975.
Consultant Maria Cuomo, Governor New York State, 1987.
Works
- Hunting the Devil: The Pursuit, Capture and Confession of the Most Savage Serial Killer in History
- An account of the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo, Russia's most notorious serial killer whose victims totaled fifty-three, describes the efforts of Chief Inspector Issa Kostoev to capture Chikatilo and bring him to justice.
- Hunting the Devil/Pursuit, Capture and Confession of the Most Savage Serial Killer in History
- An account of the search for the killer of fifty-three Soviet citizens describes how Russian Chief Inspector Issa Kostoev searched for the man who sexually mutilated, killed, and cannibalized his victims.
- Snake Hunting on the Devil's Highway
- On his first snake hunting trip to southeastern Arizona, the author was taunted and belittled by the owner of a small café because he expressed a fear of insects.
- First Loyalty
- PAPERBACK.
