Robert McKee
American academic specialised in seminars for screenwriters · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1941 · age 85
Robert McKee is an author, lecturer and story consultant who is known for his Story Seminar, which emerged from a doctoral project which he started but failed to complete at the University of Michigan, and which he further developed while teaching at the University of Southern California.
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McKee also has the blog and online writers' resource Storylogue. McKee's Story Seminars have been held around the world. The three-day seminar teaches writers McKee's principles of storytelling. McKee's one-day Genre Seminars teach writers McKee's take on the conventions of different styles of storytelling.

