John Schultz has been interviewed for and appears in the PBS film "Daley: The Last Boss" (January 1996) and the Arts & Entertainment American Justice Documentary "The Chicago Conspiracy Trial" (1994, 1995). His most recent book is The Chicago Conspiracy Trial (Da Capo, 1993, revised and updated version of Motion Will Be Denied, with an extensive Afterword by the author), about the spectacular trial of eight famous activists indicted for crossing state lines with intent to incite antiwar riots at the Democratic National Convention of 1968. A two-hour-and-ten-minute BBC radio drama, "The Chicago Conspiracy Trial" (which first aired in the UK in August 1993, and in the US in the fall 1993) was based in part on his book and features John Schultz as guide and historical commentator.

Mr. Schultz’s other books include the short novel, "Custom," 3x3 and 4x4 (Grove Press, 1963, 1967); The Tongues of Men - three short novels and eight short stories - includes the short novel "Custom," which was at the center of controversy in the seizure of John Schultz’s manuscripts by Customs officials in Laredo, Texas (Big Table, 1969), and No One Was Killed (Big Table, 1969) about the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

He is the author of two important books about central events of the Vietnam period and is at work on a new book telling the complete story of the Democratic Convention of 1968.

His text, Writing From Start To Finish (Heinemann/Boynton/Cook) was published in August 1982, concise edition issued in 1990. The Teachers Manual for Writing From Start To Finish was published by Heinemann/Boynton/Cook in 1983.

Mr. Schultz contributed dream plays to Dream Theater, Body Politic, 1970-72. The play version of "Custom" was produced at the Body Politic Theater, 1973.

Mr. Schultz was contributing editor of Evergreen Review, a leading literary and cultural magazine in the 1960’s.

Now editor of F Magazine, he edited the anthologies f1, f2: Novels in Progress, and The Story Workshop Reader, and The Best of Hair Trigger, among others. He has given many readings of his fiction and nonfiction, from the Big Table readings at Second City in the 1960’s to recent readings in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City.

Full interviews with Mr. Schultz were published in Chicago Review, 1977; Writing, Fall 1984.

An interview and reading of portions of a Korean War short novel "Daley Goes Home" were aired on "New Letters on the Air," and placed in the New Letters archive, 1986.

He has published two novella-length creative non-fiction essays: "The Siege of ‘68" in The Reader (September 1988); and "The Fabulous Presumption of Disney World: Magic Kingdom in the Wilderness" in The Georgia Review (Summer 1988), republished in German in Merian.

Media coverage of John Schultz and 1968 includes
"28 - Year old Snapshots Are Still Vivid, and Still Violent," by John Kifner, full page, The New York Times, August 26, 1996.

"In Chicago, A Fine Blue Line," by Edward Walsh, Washington Post, July 31, 1996.

Chronicle of Higher Education, September 6 1996.

And Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and dozens of other U.S. and foreign media, television, radio, and print.

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Originator of The Story Workshop Approach to The Teaching of Writing

Mr. Schultz originated The Story Workshop method of teaching writing in 1965 and has continued to develop and broaden it, developing expository and argumentative as well as fiction writing approaches. He has given presentations frequently at national meetings of the Conference of College Composition and Communication, the National Council of Teachers of English, and other major conferences concerned with the teaching of writing, including two presentations at the Modern Language Association.