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Author Vann, David

Title Last day on earth : a portrait of the NIU school shooter / David Vann
Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (167 pages)
Series Winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for creative nonfiction
Winner of the Associated Writing Programs award for creative nonfiction
Summary On Valentine's Day 2008, Steve Kazmierczak killed five and wounded eighteen at Northern Illinois University, then killed himself. But he was an A student, a Deans' Award winner. How could this happen? CNN could not get the story. The Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and all others came up empty because Steve's friends and professors knew very little. He had reinvented himself in his final five years. But David Vann, investigating for Esquire, went back to Steve's high school and junior high friends, found a life perfectly shaped for mass murder, and gained full access to the entire 1,500 pages of the police files. The result: the most complete portrait we have of any school shooter. But Vann doesn't stop there. He recounts his own history with guns, contemplating a school shooting. This book is terrifying and true, a story you'll never forget"--Provided by publisher
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"Winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for creative nonfiction."
Subject Kazmierczak, Steve
Kazmierczak, Steve
Northern Illinois University -- Students
Northern Illinois University
Mass murder -- Illinois -- De Kalb
Youth and violence -- Illinois -- De Kalb
School shootings -- Illinois -- De Kalb
Campus violence -- Illinois -- De Kalb
TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
Campus violence
Mass murder
School shootings
Students
Youth and violence
Illinois -- De Kalb
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011018019
ISBN 0820342106
9780820342108
1283253054
9781283253055
9786613253057
6613253057
Other Titles Portrait of the NIU school shooter
Portrait of the Northern Illinois University school shooter