| KEN
ATCHITY, PH.D. |
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With more than forty years experience in the publishing
world, and over fifteen years in entertainment,
Dr. Ken Atchity is a self-defined "story merchant"
- writer, producer, teacher, and literary manager,
responsible for launching dozens of books and
films. His life's passion is finding great storytellers
and turning them into bestselling authors and
screenwriters.
Ken has produced 28 films, including "Joe Somebody"
(Tim Allen; Fox), "Life or Something Like It"
(Angelina Jolie; Fox), "The Amityville Horror"
(NBC), "Shadow of Obsession" (NBC), "The Madam's
Family" (CBS), “Gospel Hill” (Fox), and ‘Hitting
the Bricks.” Films in development include “Meg,”
“3 Men Seeking Monsters” (Universal), “Demonkeeper”
(Fox), “The Last Valentine” (Hallmark Hall of
Fame), “Sex in the South” (Lifetime), nd Ripley's
Believe-It-Or-Not (starring Jim Carrey; Paramount).
Full film bio at
www.imdb.com.
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His
14 books include books for writers at every
stage of their careers.
Based on his own teaching and writing experience,
Ken has successfully built bestselling careers
for novelists, nonfiction writers, and screenwriters
from the ground up. Clients include bestsellers
Jamise Dames, Noire, Shirley Palmer, Tracy Price-Thompson,
Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not!, Cheryl Saban, and
Governor Jesse Ventura. Now, as chairman and CEO
of Atchity Entertainment International, Inc.,
Ken's Story Merchant companies, www.aeionline.com
and www.thewriterslifeline.com, provide a one-stop
full-service development and management machine
for commercial and literary writers who wish to
launch their storytelling in all media - from
publishing and film and television production,
to Web presence and merchandising & licensing.
Ken was born in Eunice, Louisiana; and grew up
between Louisiana and Kansas City, Missouri, where
he attended Rockhurst High School (he was editor
in chief of The Prep News), and was founder and
editor of the St. Elizabeth young teen newspaper
The Rumble. After receiving K.C.'s Mnookin-Brown
American Legion writing fellowship, Ken won an
Ignatian Scholarship to Georgetown University.
After undergraduate work at Georgetown (A.B.,
English/Classics, winner Virgilian Medal), and
graduate work at Yale (M.Phil. Theater History,
Ph.D. Comparative Literature):
- He served as professor and chairman of comparative
literature and creative writing at Occidental
College (Faculty Achievement Award; published
articles, reviews, short stories, and poems
in major journals and magazines throughout
the world).
- Received awards and grants from the American
Council of Learned Societies, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation
- Editor of CQ: Contemporary Quarterly:
Poetry and Art
- Co-founder and -editor (with Marsha Kinder
of Dreamworks: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Devoted to the Relationship between Dreams
and the Arts (authors published and/or
advisory board included Joyce Carol Oates,
Ursula Leguin, Ernest Cardenal, Federico Fellini,
Ingmar Bergman, Paul Bowles, John Fowles,
Hubert Selby, John Rechy, Stephen King, Georges
Simenon, Carlos Fuentes, Eugene Ionesco).
- Served as Fulbright Professor of American
Studies at the University of Bologna
- Distinguished Instructor, UCLA Writers
Program
- Regular columnist-reviewer for The Los
Angeles Times Book Review (involved in establishing
the Los Angeles Times Book Awards)
- Vice-president of P.E.N. Los Angeles
- Ken has made numerous radio and television
appearances, speaking on creativity, dreams,
and various academic and entertainment and
publishing related subjects.
- He’s a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
- He wrote and served as on-camera talent
for Synapse Technology's " Columbus : The
Voyage of Discovery," and consulted for the
Discovery Channel's series, "The Power of
Dreams."
Several of Ken's screenplays are currently under
option. One of Ken's favorite activities is reaching
out to writers as keynote speaker at conferences.
Conferences he's appeared at include:
- CASE Institute ( San Diego )
- Romantic Times Convention ( New York City
)
- Deep South Writers Conference ( Lafayette
, Louisiana )
- Southwest Writers Conference ( Albuquerque
)
- Austin Writers League Conference
- Florida Bar Association ( Miami )
- The Learning Annex ( Los Angeles , New York
, San Diego , San Francisco , Toronto )
- Honolulu Writers Conference
- American Writers Conference
- Southwest Writers Conference ( Houston )
- Dallas Writers Conference
- Loyola Writers Conference ( Los Angeles
)
- Open University ( Minneapolis )
- University of California (Davis, Irvine
, Los Angeles , Riverside , Santa Barbara
, San Diego )
- California State University ( Bakersfield
, Los Angeles , Dominguez Hills)
- Georgetown University
- University of Houston
- University of Texas (Dallas)
- Rico University
- Villanova
- Swarthmore
- Avila Writers Conference ( Kansas City )
- Mega Book Marketing University ( Los Angeles
)
- University of Missouri ( Kansas City )
- Willamette Valley Writers Conference
- Women in Film ( Hollywood )
- Women's National Book Association ( New
York )
- WOW ( Baltimore )
Ken's biography is listed in:
- Who's Who in America
- Contemporary Authors
- Directory of American Scholars
- Who's Who in California
- Who's Who in the West
- International Who's Who in Poetry
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| KEN
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Who's Who in America
- Contemporary Authors
- Directory of American Scholars
- Who's Who in California
- Who's Who in the West
- International Who's Who in Poetry
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| CLIENTS
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- Afro-American Urban Center
- Association for the Study of Dreams
- The Book Bridge
- California Arts Council
- CASE Institute
- Freshhh! Orange Juice
- The Getty Museum
- The Learning Annex
- Los Angeles Times Book Review
- Mark Taper Forum
- Mitchell Oil & Petroleum
- Pasadena Unified School District, Research
and Teacher Education (RATE) Project
- Ripley Entertainment
- SignaturesCelebrities and SignaturesNetwork
- U.S. Postal Service
- Getty Museum, 1982:
- University of Houston, Continuing Education
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