William Todd Schultz

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William Todd Schultz (born {{circa}} 1969) is an American writer specializing in biographies and psychobiographies of artists, based in Portland, Oregon. Schultz received a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Lewis and Clark College in 1985, an MA in Personality Psychology from the University of California in 1987, and a PhD in Personality Psychology from the University of California in 1993.{{cite web|url=http://www.pacificu.edu/about-us/faculty/todd-schultz-phd|title=Todd Schultz, PhD|date=3 March 2014|publisher=Pacific University|accessdate=March 25, 2016}}

Schultz's first psychobiographical subject was James Agee. Other early articles focused on Ludwig Wittgenstein,{{cite journal |pmid=10461669 | volume=86 | issue=2 | title=The riddle that doesn't exist: Ludwig Wittgenstein's transmogrification of death | year=1999 | journal=Psychoanal Rev | pages=281–303 | last1 = Schultz | first1 = WT}} Jack Kerouac,{{Cite journal|jstor = 23539846|title = An "Orpheus Complex" in Two Writers-of-Loss|journal = Biography|volume = 19|issue = 4|pages = 371–393|last1 = Schultz|first1 = William Todd|year = 1996|doi = 10.1353/bio.2010.0742|s2cid = 161725527}} Roald Dahl,{{Cite journal|last=Todd Schultz|first=William|date=1998-09-01|title=Finding Fate's Father: Some Life History Influences on Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236706138|journal=Biography|volume=21|issue=4|pages=463–481|doi=10.1353/bio.2010.0270|s2cid=161438469}} Franz Kafka, and Oscar Wilde.{{Cite web|url=http://psycnet.apa.org/books/10410/003|title = APA PsycNet}} In 2005, Schultz conceived and edited Oxford's Handbook of Psychobiography.Schultz, William Todd (2005). Handbook of Psychobiography. New York/London: Oxford University Press. He curates Oxford's "Inner Lives" series,{{Cite web|url=https://williamtoddschultz.wordpress.com/inner-lives-oxford-series-on-psychobiography/|title = "Inner Lives" (Oxford Psychobiography Series)|date = 5 October 2010}} consisting of personality profiles of provocative artists and historical figures.

Schultz has published three books, all on artists: "Tiny Terror: Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers" (2011); "An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus" (2011); and "Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith" (2013).

In 2015, Schultz was awarded the Erik Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media.{{cite web|url=http://www.austenriggs.org/erikson-institute-prize-excellence-mental-health-media|title=Erik Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media}}