About
I'm a happy member of the Authors Guild and have made good use of their web services to create a website, www.paulschullery.com, which provides a lot of fine and tedious detail about my writing and related work. In short, my interests encompass science and natural history, the history of conservation, the history of sport, historical fiction and fictional memoir. I've addressed those topics in more than 40 books of memoir, essay, formal scholarship, and fiction, published by many different large, medium, and small publishers, including several university presses. I've received some highly gratifying awards for this work, including two honorary doctorates, the Wallace Stegner Award, a Panda Award for screenwriting, and several other honors from various institutions, professional societies, and federal agencies. For some years now I've been scholar-in-residence at the Montana State University Library, Bozeman, Montana. I'm married to the artist Marsha Karle, with whom I have collaborated as author and illustrator on seven books, with more in the works.
Featured Work
Diamond Jubilee: Sherlock Holmes, Mark Twain, and the Peril of the Empire
It is June, 1897, the eve of the greatest celebration in the history of London—the Diamond Jubilee of Her Royal Highness Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India. At 221B Baker street, happy anticipation of the event is shattered when an alarmed Samuel Clemens bursts in and informs Holmes and Watson that his life is threatened by a bizarre international conspiracy. Holmes, Watson, and Clemens spend the frantic final days before the Jubilee discovering that the conspiracy is much worse than Clemens imagined. The very fate of the Empire is at stake. Replete with the trademark Holmesian insights and London underworld adventuring, Diamond Jubilee features a host of colorful London characters, including a brilliant London "crime queen," Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Mycroft Holmes, Scotland Yard's best and worst, the Baker Street Irregulars (themselves infiltrated by unknown sinister elements), and thousands of the most appalling rats.
