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David Grann
A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history
Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, and Robert DeNiro.
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The New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Killers of the Flower Moon is now adapted for young readers.
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New York Times #1 best-seller, and now a major motion picture
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.
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“A powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs”
By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon. David Grann tells Worsley’s remarka
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The Storyteller: David Grann
How did you decide to focus on Mollie Burkhart?
It was clear to me that she was at the center of the story—indeed, even its conscience. She realized her family members were being killed, one after the other, and despite the risks to her own life she valiantly crusaded for justice. Yet in the official accounts, which were written by Bureau agents, her perspective is almost completely ignored. You didn’t learn about her or her family. I thought that was an injustice unto itself.
You like digging deep into the past, don’t you?
You know, it’s funny: I began my reporting dealing with contemporary issues and living sources, but of late I find myself increasingly drawn to history. In the case of my first book, The Lost City of Z, about Percy Fawcett, a British explorer who disappeared in the Amazon in the 1920s, I tracked down his granddaughter, in Wales. I told her that I was trying to understand what had happened to her grandfather. She invited me in, we chatted for a while, and then—I remember this very vividly—she led me into this back room where
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David Grann is an award-winning journalist, staff writer for TheNew Yorker, and author. He has published several non-fiction books. Born on March 18 in 1967, Grann was raised in Connecticut. He received a Bachelor of Arts in government from Connecticut College. After receiving the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Grann began working as a journalist in Mexico. Subsequently, Grann attended graduate school at Tufts University, obtaining a master's in international relations. In 1994, he became a copy editor at The Hill, a political newspaper based in Washington D.C. Concurrently, he received an MFA in creative writing from Boston University, while teaching writing courses. Grann was named executive editor at The Hill in 1995 and then, in 1996, became senior editor at The New Republic. In 2003, he was hired as a staff writer at The New Yorker.
In 2009, Grann published The Lost City of Z to great critical acclaim. It was named a "Best Book of the Year" by Publisher's Weekly and Christian Science Moni
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