John Muller

John Muller is an associate librarian in the Special Collections, Washingtoniana Division of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library and a Washington-based journalist, historian, playwright and policy analyst. His first book, Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.: The Lion of Anacostia, won a public vote to be selected as the DC Public Library's 2013 DC Reads. A former reporter for the Washington Times, Muller is a current contributor to Capital Community News, Greater Greater Washington and other local news publications. His historical writing and current affairs reporting has appeared in Washington History, the Washington Post, the Georgetowner, East of the River, the Washington Informer, DCist, Suspense Magazine, Next American City, Readex Report and the Oxford African American Studies Center. Muller has covered municipal and neighborhood politics in the Washington metropolitan area for the last half-decade.

In 2004, Muller co-founded a theater company, DreamCity Theatre Group, that was a finalist for three 2007 Mayor's Arts Awards, including Outstanding Contribution to Arts Education. He is a member of the Historical Society of Washington and the planning committee for the annual D.C. Historical Studies Conference. Muller is a 2007 graduate of George Washington University, with a BA in public policy, and a 1995 graduate of Greenwood Elementary School in Brookeville, Maryland.