Ted Geltner

Author of Blood, Bone, and Marrow

Blood, Bone and Marrow - A Biography of Ted Crews - Book Cover
Blood, Bone and Marrow - A Biography of Ted Crews - Book Cover

Blood, Bone and Marrow
A Biography of Harry Crews

by Ted Geltner

Harry Crews was the son of a tenant farmer who, despite a childhood of desperate poverty and little education, developed an unbreakable desire to write that would eventually take him to unimaginable heights. He was a mule driver, a Marine, a boxer, a carnival barker and a motorcycle racer, all-the-while developing the voice and the life experience that he would eventually use to invent a new...

Blood, Bone and Marrow - A Biography of Ted Crews - Book Cover
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Last King of the Sports Page
The Life and Career of Jim Murray

by Ted Geltner

Part crusader, part comedian, Jim Murray was a once-in-a-generation literary talent who just happened to ply his trade on newsprint, right near the box scores and race results. During his lifetime, Murray rose through the ranks of journalism, from hard-bitten 1940s crime reporter, to national Hollywood correspondent, to the top sports columnist in the United States. In Last King of the Sports Page...

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"Harry Crews was a uniquely gifted and haunted storyteller. Novelist, journalist, memoirist―he made each form his own in a way no one else had before or since. The pages that follow in this absorbing biography detail this and reach into the guts of the experiences that formed him and gave him a voice that was sad, brutal, and funny. Harry said that when it came to writing the truth about himself―or anything for that matter―he was not as interested in facts as he was in memory and belief.”
— From the foreword by bestselling author Michael Connelly

“Geltner brilliantly renders the life of the late writer Harry Crews in this well-researched and vivid biography. It captures the wild spirit of an unflinching American writer...”
— Publishers Weekly

Author

Ted Geltner is an award-winning writer, editor and a journalism educator who specializes in biography, sports writing and the history of sports journalism.

Editor

Before pursuing his doctoral degree in journalism, Geltner was a full-time writer, editor and columnist for the Ocala Star-Banner, the Scranton Times-Tribune, and the Gainesville Sun.

Journalist

Geltner also has considerable experience in radio, television and on-line journalism. While working in Florida, he hosted a weekly entertainment radio show.

Educator

Geltner is an associate professor at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia, where he teaches courses in reporting, literary journalism, magazine journalism, and photojournalism.