1. Whitney Terrell was born on October 3,1967 and is an American writer and educator from Kansas City, Missouri.
10 Facts About Whitney Terrell
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Whitney Terrell was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and attended high school at The Pembroke Hill School, where he was captain of the soccer team and lead guitarist of a band called The Caste.
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Whitney Terrell earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Princeton University in 1991.
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In 1992, Whitney Terrell moved to Iowa City, where he completed his MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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From 1996 to 2001, Whitney Terrell taught at Rockhurst University in Kansas City and became the Writer in Residence from 2000 to 2003.
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In 2005, Whitney Terrell published his second novel, The King of Kings County.
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In 2006, Whitney Terrell was named to a list of best writers under 40 by a panel of National Book Critics Circle Award members.
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In 2006 and 2010, Whitney Terrell embedded with the US Army in Iraq.
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Whitney Terrell covered the war for The Washington Post Magazine, Slate and NPR.
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Whitney Terrell was the New Letters Writer-in-Residence at the University of Missouri-Kansas City from 2004 to 2014.