The paperback release on May 1, 2012, brought Larson back to Chicago, a city the Long Islander and longtime resident of Seattle has come to love. A wildfire international bestseller, “In the Garden of Beasts” was optioned by Universal Studios and Tom Hanks’ Playtone. Dodd, the professorial American ambassador to Germany in 1933, and his romantically intrepid (not to say reckless) 24-year-old daughter, Martha.
Larson’s latest book, “In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin,” led the author into the darkest chamber of the heart of the 20th century when he discovered the forgotten yet invaluable experiences and perspectives of two witnesses to the rise of the Third Reich: William E. In the bestselling “Thunderstruck,” Larson mapped the congruence of Guglielmo Marconi’s invention of the wireless with the exploits of the notorious British murderer Hawley Harvey Crippen, vividly recreating one of the strangest and most public criminal chases the world has ever followed. Leonardo DiCaprio optioned the film rights with an eye to playing Holmes himself. A National Book Award Finalist, this indelible work won the Edgar Award for “fact crime” writing and stayed on the New York Times bestseller lists for more than three years. In “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America,” Larson entwined the many-faceted story of Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition with the macabre tale of serial killer Dr.
In his first big hit, “Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History,” Larson chronicled the Galveston hurricane of 1900, portrayed the pioneering Texas weatherman Isaac Cline, and charted the murder of businessman William Marsh Rice, founder of Rice University in Houston, Texas. James and Truman Capote’s true-crime masterpiece, “In Cold Blood,” Larson has specialized in paradoxical true-life tales in which great leaps of technological innovation intersect with murder most gruesome. How about a tall, fit, impeccably attired, articulate and bemused man as quick to spar as he is to joke? Enter Erik Larson.Ī journalist turned narrative historian influenced by the brilliant crime novelist P.D. What sort of writer devotes himself to portraying scrupulously the vilest of criminals in works of intensely researched creative nonfiction? You might expect a brooding sort, with an aura of menace and obsession. Side Gigs for the Nonfiction 99 Percent.
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