About the Author

Erik Larson is the writer of eight books, six of which became New York Times bestsellers. His latest books, The Splendid and the Vile : A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz and Dead Wake : The last Crossing of the Lusitania, both hit no. 1 on the list soon after establish. His saga of the Chicago World ’ s Fair of 1893, The Devil in the White City, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing ; it lingered on assorted Times best seller lists for the better contribution of a ten. Hulu plans to adapt the bible for a limited television receiver series, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese as executive producers. Erik ’ s In the Garden of Beasts, about how America ’ s first ambassador to Nazi Germany and his daughter experienced the rising terror of Hitler ’ mho rule, has been optioned by Tom Hanks for development as a feature movie .
Erik ’ s first script of narrative nonfiction, Isaac’s Storm, about the giant hurricane that destroyed Galveston, Texas, in 1900, won the american Meteorology Society ’ s esteemed Louis J. Battan Author ’ s Award. The Washington Post called it the “ Jaws of hurricane yarns. ” Erik is particularly pleased to have won the Chicago Public Library Foundation ’ s 2016 Carl Sandburg Literary Award for Non-Fiction .
He graduated summa semen laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied russian history, linguistic process and culture ; he received a masters in journalism from Columbia University. After a brief stint at the Bucks County Courier Times, Erik became a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, and late a lend writer for Time Magazine. His cartridge holder stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, and early publications .
He has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, the University of Oregon, and the Chuckanut Writers Conference in Bellingham, Wash., and has spoken to audiences from seashore to coast. A erstwhile resident of Seattle, he nowadays lives in Manhattan with his wife, a neonatologist, who is besides the writer of the nonfiction memoir, Almost Home, which, as Erik puts it, “ could make a stone cry. ” They have three daughters in far-flung locations and professions. Their beloved cad Molly resides in an urn on a ledge overlooking Central Park, where they like to think she now spends most of her time.

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Erik Larson is the generator of six New York Times bestsellers, including dead wake : The final Crossing of the Lusitania, which hit no. 1 on the Times list soon after launch, and his newest book, The Splendid and the Vile : A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz. The latter is in big part a domestic drama that examines how Winston Churchill and his “ Secret Circle ” actually went about surviving the german air campaign of 1940-41. Erik ’ s The Devil in the White City is set to be a Hulu circumscribed series ; his In the Garden of Beasts is under choice by Tom Hanks, for a feature film. Erik lives in Manhattan with his wife, who is a writer and withdraw neonatologist ; they have three grow daughters.

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