AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY

John Temple, 40, is an associate professor of journalism at West Virginia University. He teaches reporting and writing courses and serves as the associate dean of the P.I. Reed School of Journalism.

Temple is the author of Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office, published in 2005, and the just-released The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates.

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 lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, with his wife, Hollee Schwartz Temple, a law professor and work-life balance columnist for the ABA Journal, and their two sons.