Cathy Scott

Cathy Scott

Infobox journalist


name=Cathy Scott
| birthname= Cathleen
birth_date=1949
birth_place=San Diego, California, USA
education=University of Redlands (1990); Grossmont Community College (1970);
occupation=Journalist, author, lecturer
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gender=female
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family=daughter of Eileen Rose Busby and James (Jim) Scott
spouse=
children= son, Raymond Somers Jr.
relatives= brother J. Michael Scott, uncle Seraphim Rose, grandmother Esther Rose
religion=
salary=
networth=
credits=award-winning former reporter at Las Vegas Sun, correspondent at New York Times; guest on CNN, NPR and MTV.
agent=Riverside Literary Agency
URL= http://www.cathyscott.com/

Cathy Scott is an American true crime author and investigative journalist, born and raised in San Diego, United States growing up in nearby La Mesa, California. She later moved to Mission Beach, California, where she was a single parent to a son, Raymond Somers Jr.

Biography

Scott, a graduate of the University of Redlands, is a Las Vegas-based journalist and author best known for penning the biographies and true crime books "The Killing of Tupac Shakur" (Huntington Press, ISBN 0-929-71220-X) and "The Murder of Biggie Smalls" (St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-26620-0), both bestsellers in the U.S. and U.K. [ [http://www.booksinprint.com/ booksinprint.com: Home ] ] [ [http://www.aarons-books.co.uk/p/booklist-226.html Aarons Books UK bestsellers list ] ] The books are based on the drive-by shootings that killed the rappers six months apart in the midst of what has been called a West Coast-East Coast rap war (see East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry). Scott's hip hop books are each dedicated to the rappers' mothers. In 2005, an article first published in "George", was released in the 2005 book [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0859653757/ Tupac: A Thug's Life] , a compilation of national magazine writers. She regularly coaches writers, including at the [ [http://travel.state.mt.us/categories/moreinfo.asp?IDRRecordID=12180&SiteID=1 Flathead River Writers Conference] ] .

Career

Scott, who wrote poetry as a teenager, worked on the Helix High School yearbook her senior year. But her first full-time newspaper position wouldn't happen for 20 years, when she took a position as a reporter at the "Beach & Bay Press" in Mission Beach and Pacific Beach. She then became business editor of the "La Jolla Light" weekly newspaper, after winning a Best of Show journalism award out of 1,200 entries from the San Diego Press Club, then moved to a daily paper, the "Vista Press", in North San Diego County. She left the paper to string as a correspondent for the Associated Press and "The San Diego Union-Tribune". While reporting in San Diego, she was a member of the San Diego Press Club. She moved to the Mojave Desert as a crime beat reporter for the "Las Vegas Sun", where she worked until 1998, and then went onto freelancing for the "New York Times", Reuters news service and writing true crime books and biographies. While still at the "Sun" in 1997, her first book, "The Killing of Tupac Shakur", was released. [ [http://www.streetgangs.com/topics/tupac/090497tupacbook.html] ]

She sat as the Nevada State Sunshine Chair, for 10 years until 2007, on the Society of Professional Journalists' Sunshine Committee. [ [http://www.lawsonline.net/Bulletin/bulletin_archives/April00/FOIA/State.htm] State Freedom of Information Contact Sites]

Her latest project, "Pawprints of Katrina", [ [http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470228512.html Wiley::Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned ] ] is a book about Scott's nearly four months on the Gulf Coast writing about the largest rescue of animals in U.S. history. [ [http://network.bestfriends.org/Blogs/PostDetail.aspx?bp=1166 Tylertown revisited ] ] [ [http://www.newsguide.us/art-entertainment/books/Pawprints-of-Katrina-Pets-Saved-and-Lessons-Learned/] ] She was a participant in the 2008 National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by First Lady Laura Bush, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. [ [http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2008/authors/Scott.html] Participant, 2008 National Book Festival]

Scott taught journalism and advanced magazine writing for five years at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas's School of Journalism until September 2005 when she traveled to New Orleans as an embedded reporter for Best Friends Animal Society to cover animal rescues in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for its magazine and Web site. When she returned, she hired on with Best Friends as a staff writer. [ [http://www.cathyscott.com/about.htm AuthorsBio ] ] Her work has appeared in "The New York Times", "New York Post", "George" magazine, "Los Angeles Times", "Christian Science Monitor," "San Diego Union-Tribune" and "Las Vegas Sun". She has appeared on three Oxygen network "Snapped" segments about murder cases involving women and "Unsolved Mysteries" about the Tupac Shakur case.

Family

Scott is the daughter of the late Eileen Rose Busby, [ [http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050409/news_1m9busby.html Eileen Rose Busby; writer, world traveler and antiques expert | The San Diego Union-Tribune ] ] an author, and the late James (Jim) Scott, a Senior Olympics winner who helped pioneer and develop the game of racquetball. She is the granddaughter of California artist Esther Rose and Frank Rose (a sports writer at the Two Harbors, Minnesota, newspaper in the 1920s), the niece of the late Russian Orthodox Hieromonk Father Seraphim Rose, and sister of scientist and author Dr. J. Michael Scott.

External links

* [http://www.cathyscott.com/ Cathy Scott Official Homepage]
* [http://cathyscott.blogspot.com/ Cathy Scott Official Blog]
* [http://www.authorsguild.org/?p=13319 Member, Authors Guild]
* [http://cathyscott.com/pdf/wd1002.pdf Writer's Digest, Oct. 2002]
* [http://www.cathyscott.com/artcls/Publisher_Defends_Shakur_Photo.html Book publisher defends Shakur photo, "Las Vegas Sun", Sept. 1997]
* [http://www.vegasvalleybookfest.org/writers/ Vegas Valley Book Festival]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1025638/ IMDb profile]

Books

* "The Killing of Tupac Shakur" (1997, 2002) (ISBN 0-92971220X)
* "The Murder of Biggie Smalls" (2000) (ISBN 0312266200)
* "Death in the Desert: The Ted Binion Homicide Case" (2000) (ISBN 1588205320)
* "Seraphim Rose: The True Story and Private Letters" (2000) (ISBN 1928653014
* "Murder of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan Berman" (2002) (ISBN 1569802386)
* "Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned" (2008) (ISBN 0470228512)

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