Erik Larson Biography

Erik Larson is the author of four New York Times bestsellers most recently In the Garden of Beasts: Love Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin which hit #1 and remained on the printed list for 35 weeks. As a paperback Beasts lingered on the list for 53 weeks and spent 15 of them in the #1 spot. The book was published in Britain France Italy Poland Australia and a dozen other countries. Movie rights were optioned by Universal Studios and Tom Hanks’ Playtone. Erik’s book The Devil in the White City stayed on the Times‘ hardcover and paperback lists for a combined total of over five years. It won an Edgar Award for nonfiction crime writing and was a finalist for a National Book Award; the option to make a movie of the book was acquired in November 2010 by Leonardo DiCaprio. Erik’s new book Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania is a non-fiction maritime thriller set to launch on March 10 2015.
Erik’s research has taken him to far-flung locales and down innumerable strange alleys. For his 2006 bestseller Thunderstruck Erik traveled to London Munich Rome Nova Scotia and Cape Cod as he sought to chronicle the strange intersection in the careers of Guglielmo Marconi inventor of wireless and Hawley Harvey Crippen England’s second most-famous murderer (after Jack the Ripper). To broaden his understanding of Marconi and his roots Erik studied Italian; he achieved an elementary grasp of the language while developing an advanced appreciation for Italian red wines.

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