William Todd Schultz is one of the world's most respected practitioners of psychobiography (the application of psychological theory and research to individual lives of historical importance). Over the past 15 years he has published numerous articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews on the topic. His subjects include James Agee, Jack Kerouac, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Roald Dahl, Diane Arbus, Kathryn Harrison, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde, and Truman Capote, among many others. He has also written an important and widely-cited methodological paper on the concept of the prototypical scene. He has appeared in Psychology Today and on the Discovery Channel, where he discussed the life and mind of the notorious King Herod for the programme "King Herod: Madman or Murderer?"

Schultz is a member of the Society for Personology, founded by Rae Carlson and Silvan Tomkins. He is also psychobiography bibliographer for the journal Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, for which he contributes annually an annotated bibliography of psychobiographical writings. He regularly reviews psychobiography-related book proposals for Oxford University Press. In 1998 he chaired a symposium on Psychobiography at the American Psychological Association Convention in San Francisco. Panelists for that event included Alan Elms, William Runyan, and Rae Carlson.

Schultz currently teaches at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, where he is a tenured Associate Professor of Psychology. He makes his home in Forest Grove with his wife and two children. He can be reached via email at schultzt@pacificu.edu. His personal website address is www.psychobiography.com