Whitney Terrell's novel, THE GOOD LIEUTENANT, was selected as a best book of 2016 by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and Refinery 29. It was long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. He is also the author of THE HUNTSMAN, a New York Times notable book in 2001, and THE KING OF KINGS COUNTY, which was selected as a best book of 2005 by the Christian Science Monitor. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he teaches Creative Writing. He has also taught fiction at Princeton University and was the Hodder Fellow for 2008-2009.

His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, Literary Hub and other publications. He was an embedded reporter in Iraq during 2006 and 2010 and covered the war for The Washington Post Magazine, Slate and NPR. He was born and raised in Kansas City.

Books by Whitney Terrell

The Good Lieutenant

by Whitney Terrell - Fiction

On the outskirts of Baghdad, Lieutenant Emma Fowler’s platoon unwittingly rolls into a buried maze of IEDs --- and their Humvee is blasted into a shrapnel-torn wreck. From this catastrophic moment, THE GOOD LIEUTENANT unspools backward in time as Fowler and her platoon are guided into disaster by suspicious informants and questionable intelligence, their mission the result of a previous snafu in which a soldier was kidnapped by insurgents. The novel unfolds from points of view that are not customarily included in war coverage --- a tenacious female officer, jaded career soldiers, and Iraqis both innocent and not so innocent.