Dean Nelson is the founder and director of the journalism program at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. He is also the founder and host of the annual Writers Symposium by the Sea. A forty-year veteran journalist, Nelson's bylines have appeared in publications such as New York Times, Boston Globe, USA Today, San Jose Mercury News, San Diego Union-Tribune, Minneapolis Star Tribune, USA, and more. He lives in San Diego with his wife. http://deannelson.net/ Twitter: @deanenelson
Talk to Me is the perfect guide to interviewing. I can think of many reporters, anchors, and late-night personalities who could benefit from this book, but anyone who speaks with fellow humans will find Nelson's guidance priceless. - Tom Foster, author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor Dean Nelson is a fabulous interviewer because he has the most important qualification-genuine curiosity. Add to that his deep compassion his searing intellect, and his love of a good story, and Dean gets you to say things about yourself that even you didn't realize. And you're the better for it. - Jeannette Walls Dean Nelson is a remarkable interviewer: wonderfully informed, perceptive, smart, funny, and-not least-uplifting. - Joyce Carol Oates Dean Nelson is one of the best interviewers around. - Anne Lamott