David Kinney

David Kinney came to Trout Unlimited in 2016 after twenty years as a full-time writer.

David Kinney is the author of The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich (2016), written with retired FBI art crime expert Robert Wittman. It tells the story of the disappearance and recovery of Nazi Reich Minister Alfred Rosenberg’s diary. Kinney also wrote The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob (2014), a kaleidoscopic look at Bob Dylan through the lives of his fans and followers, and The Big One: An Island, an Obsession, and the Furious Pursuit of a Great Fish (2009), which follows the fanatical saltwater fishermen of Martha’s Vineyard during the island’s annual derby. His journalism has appeared in newspapers around the country, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times. At The Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest paper, he was a political reporter on the team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005. He lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

OTHER WRITING

• It’ll Be Good For You
  (2016)

• ‘Well son, we all have our heroes.’ Excerpt from The Dylanologists
  (2014)

• Zimmy’s: An Appreciation
  (2014)

• Freewheelin’
  (2012)

• Leadbelly
  (2009)

• Book Excerpts That Don’t Suck
  (2009)