Erik Larson (writer)
Erik Larson (born January 3, 1954 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American bestselling author. His narrative non-fiction book The Devil in the White City about the serial killer HH Holmes won numerous awards, including the " Edgar ".
Life
Raised in Freeport, New York on Long Island, Larson studied Russian history at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with honors in 1976. After a one year hiatus, he graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1978 . His first newspaper stop was The Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown, Pennsylvania , where he wrote about murders, witches and environmental toxins. He later worked for The Wall Street Journal and Time . His stories have been published in magazines such as The New Yorker , The Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's .
Larson has taught at San Francisco State University , the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and the University of Oregon .
He lives in Seattle with his wife and three daughters .
Works
- The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities. 1992.
- Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun. 1995
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History. 1999.
- German: Issacs Sturm. A man and his fight against the worst hurricane in history . Translated by Bettina Abarbanell . S. Fischer Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-10-044806-5 .
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. 2003.
- German: The devil of Chicago: an architect, a murderer and the world exhibition that changed America. Translated by Bernhard Robben. Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-502-15395-7 .
- Thunderstruck. 2006.
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In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and An American Family in Hitler's Berlin. 2011.
- German: Tiergarten - In the Garden of Beasts. An American ambassador to Nazi Germany. Translated by Werner Loch-Lawrence . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-50304-3 . (On the Berlin activity of William E. Dodd .)
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. 2015
Web links
- Literature by and about Erik Larson in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.eriklarsonbooks.com/
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Larson, Erik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City |