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Cleft Palate Survivor, Professor, Painter, and Prose Writer

Karl Schonborn, Author of Cleft Heart

Karl Schonborn has earned a living using his voice as a public speaker, even though it once sounded nasal and snuffly as cleft-palate voices often do. Besides using his voice to narrate documentaries and interview  guests on TV shows, Schonborn has lectured and spoken to thousands of students in his career as a university professor.

Schonborn’s experience of being bullied as a child motivated him to study violence of all sorts—from schoolyard incidents to international ones. He’s written four books over the years, some with recommendations about how teachers, police—and even U.N. peacekeeping troops—can more effectively deal with violence.

One might expect Schonborn,  a product of the Ivy League * and a student of violence, to be one serious dude. However, his students know from painful experience that he’d like to be a stand-up comic one day…if not in this life, then in the next. With a wife and two kids and a mustache covering his upper-lip cleft palate scars, Schonborn passes for “normal” in a San Francisco suburb.

If you still don’t know enough about Schonborn… read on.

Random Facts About Karl

  • His 9 pound rescue dog, Monte, fights bullies—as an Anti-bully warrior—at facebook.com/CleftHeartChasingNormal
  • Karl’s torn between spending free time with family and friends or spending it writing or painting, two very solitary enterprises.
  • In his youth, he circumnavigated the world for $880—planes, trains, and mostly automobiles. Still loves to travel, but recently paid $880 to spend 2 nights in St. Petersburg, Russia. Had to pay upfront Russia would grant a visa.
  • He eats sticks and twigs for a long life. However, or maybe because of this, he absolutely insists on tasty, fabulous food when he breaks his cardboard n catsup diet.
  • He dislikes scuba diving, and would never bungee jump, or skydive either. His 7 cleft lip and palate surgeries left him with a healthy respect for life. Plus he dislikes the amenities of intensive care units.
  • Furthermore, he still remembers when his whole family got seasick on a catamaran on a snorkeling expedition.
  • He only watches news on TV (the Superbowl and World Series count as news given his warped male sensibility). Well, once in a while, a TV Special or a boffo movie. Not a snob, just too busy.

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  • Yale College                                                  Psychology, Writing
  • Columbia University Medical School      Medicine
  • UPenn                                                           Sociology
  • UC Berkeley, UCLA, CSU                          Writing

Recent Posts

  • Thoughts about “Clarice,” spinoff from “The Silence of the Lambs.”
  • Popular Culture and True Crime – Tutorial III – Why women are such true crime fans.
  • Popular Culture and True Crime – Tutorial II – Murderabilia.
  • Popular Culture and True Crime – Tutorial I – Serial Killer trading cards?
  • ‘40 Years a Prisoner’- Film about MOVE vs Philly Cops.

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Clarice

Thoughts about “Clarice,” spinoff from “The Silence of the Lambs.”

I managed to catch the  2nd episode of the "Clarice" series recently. It channeled the Waco cult situation, also known as  the Waco, Texas massacre.  That was the controversial law enforcement siege of a compound that belonged to the Branch Davidian religious cult. In the 2nd  episode,  Clarice … [Read More...]

True crime fans

Popular Culture and True Crime – Tutorial III – Why women are such true crime fans.

  As part of our series on Popular Culture and True Crime, our final tutorial looks at why women seem such devoted true crime fans. Tutorials I and II dealt with the fascination with serial killer trading cards and murderabilia (the collection of mementos), respectively. While I've … [Read More...]

Murderabilia

Popular Culture and True Crime – Tutorial II – Murderabilia.

  In a recent blog (go here), I discussed the furor created by the creation of serial killer trading cards* back in 1992. A similar controversy has erupted over the growing practice of collecting artifacts and even bits of hair from those involved in serial … [Read More...]

Serial Killer Trading Cards

Popular Culture and True Crime – Tutorial I – Serial Killer trading cards?

About the same time that Michael Aamodt, a professor at Radford University in Virginia, started cataloguing serial killers, trading cards popped up. Aamodt's Serial Killer Data Base, compiled with the help of students, is academic, respectable. See here for a prior blog re Aamodt's Radford … [Read More...]

MOVE

‘40 Years a Prisoner’- Film about MOVE vs Philly Cops.

How well I remember the days leading up to what seemed like just another incident of conservative urban police officials not understanding evolving radical beliefs and ideologies of the time. I'd just finished grad school in West Philadelphia, but still got  MOVE  updates from friends I'd visited in … [Read More...]

Photos from my Books

Photos from the start of Cleft Heart , from the next part, the next, and from the end of the book.

Photos from my forthcoming book about crime and privilege.

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