David Fulmer

As an author, Fulmer has written and published ten novels and one novella since 2001, along with several short stories. As a journalist, he has written about music and other subjects for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Southline, Atlanta Magazine, City Life, Markee, Georgia Music Magazine, Blues Access, Il Giornale, Goodlife, Advertising Age, The Atlanta Tribune, Creative Loafing, and BackStage. He has also worked as a welder, a display fabricator, and a bartender.

In 2001, Fulmer's first novel, Chasing the Devil's Tail, was released by Poisoned Pen Press. Harcourt Books purchased the paperback rights in 2003, and then contracted with Fulmer for five more novels. Two of Fulmer's novels won national literary awards: Chasing the Devil's Tail won the Shamus Award (2002) and Rampart Street won the Benjamin Franklin Award (2007). His novel The Blue Door was nominated for the 2009 Shamus Award for Best Novel. Fulmer's work has received high praise from such publications as Publishers Weekly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle, Booklist, Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews. Beginning in April, 2017. Crescent City Books began new releases of the entire Valenttin St. Cyr series, beginning with "Chasing the Devil's Tail." "Eclipse Alley", his sixth Valentin St. Cyr mystery, was released by Crescent City Books in October, 2017 and "The Day Ends at Dawn," the seventh and final novel in the series in January, 2019. He is currently at work on his twelfth novel. He is represented by Richard Green of ICM in Los Angeles.

Fulmer wrote and produced the documentary Blind Willie's Blues (1997), which Video Librarian called "nothing less than the economic, social, and historical evolution of America's indigenous music". He also wrote and produced the Americana audio series for National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate WABE-FM and WMLB-AM, both in Atlanta. He is the co-producer of "Piano Red – The Lost Atlanta Tapes", a CD collection by rock-and-roll legend Piano Red, released in August 2010 on Landslide Records. During his freelance career, he worked as a welder, a renovation carpenter, a set-builder, and a bartender. As a communications professional, he worked in the motorsports industry as Media Director for the Panoz Schools and Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia (1988–1999). He has taught fiction and non-fiction classes and workshops at various locations around the southeast.

Since 1985, Fulmer has contributed to periodicals including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, BackStage, Blues Access, City Life, Paste Magazine, The Atlanta Tribune, Southline, Atlanta Magazine, Creative Loafing, Advertising Age,Business Atlanta, Il Giornale and various trade publications.

Born Thurston David Fulmer, to Thurston (1924–2012) and Flora (née Prizzi) Fulmer (born 1924) in Northumberland, Pennsylvania (pop 3,714). He worked as a reporter and photographer at local newspapers during and after high school. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1971 and became a photographer in the USAREUR Intelligence Center in Heidelberg, Germany. In May 1972, his location was bombed by the Baader-Meinhof Gang and three of his co-workers were killed. During 1974–1979, he was married to Suzanne Mercier, (born May 25, 1953, in Mtarfa, Malta), a native of Sydney, Australia. He and Suzanne moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1977. He worked as a bartender at Rose's Cantina (later to become the 688 Club) while and studying toward a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Georgia State University. He has one child, Italia Patricia Fulmer (born July 2, 1996 in Atlanta), who teaches first grade at Parkside Elementary School in Atlanta. He married Sansanee Sermprungsuk (born November 29, 1973, in New York City) on October 6, 2013, in New Orleans. She is a research librarian working at a midtown Atlanta law firm.