John Temple

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Faculty Bio at the SOJ

Hometown: Pittsburgh
Status: Interim Associate Dean
Major: English
Role: Project Director

In addition to serving as the Interim Associate Dean, John Temple chairs the News-Editorial Program and teaches reporting and writing courses.

Prior to teaching at WVU, Temple taught and studied creative nonfiction writing at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned an M.F.A. Temple worked in the newspaper business for six years. He was the health/education reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a general assignment reporter for the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C., and a government and politics reporter for the Tampa Tribune in Tampa, Fla.

Temple is the author of two books of narrative journalism. “Deadhouse,” published in 2005, is the result of a year he spent shadowing the employees of the Allegheny County Coroner’s Office in Pittsburgh. “The Last Lawyer,” about a team of death-penalty lawyers in North Carolina, will be published in Fall 2009. More information about Temple’s books can be found at www.johntemplebooks.com.