David Grann
Autor(a) de Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
About the Author
David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He graduated from Connecticut College in 1989, and earned a master's degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and a master's degree from Boston College in creative writing. He has written for The New York Times mostrar mais Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic. His stories have been published in numerous anthologies of American writing. His books include The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon which won the Indies Choice award for the best nonfiction book of 2009, and Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Journalist David Grann at the 2018 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74143259
Obras por David Grann
Associated Works
Fire Fighters: Stories of Survival from the Front Lines of Firefighting (2002) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Grann, David Elliot
- Data de nascimento
- 1967-03-10
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New London, Connecticut, USA
Westport, Connecticut, USA - Educação
- Tufts University (MA | 1993 | International Relations)
Boston University (MA | 1994 | Creative Writing)
Connecticut College (AB | 1989) - Ocupações
- journalist
writer - Relações
- Darnton, Kyra (wife)
- Organizações
- The Hill
The New Republic
The New Yorker - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Thomas J. Watson Fellowship (1989)
George Polk Award (2009) - Agente
- Kathy Robbins (Robbins Office)
David Halpern (Robbins Office)
Matthew Snyder (CAA)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 17
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 13,770
- Popularidade
- #1,682
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 703
- ISBN
- 169
- Línguas
- 18
- Marcado como favorito
- 9
I started with negative expectations - the book was in the best seller lists, so it was going to be overblown, over-written or over-the-top. It was none of these. Instead it was almost perfect historical fiction, and firmly placed at the "historical" end of that continuum.
The author has a gem of a story to work with - the almost unbelievable harshness of life on a British navy ship in the mid-1700s that gets wrecked on an island off the west coast of South America. Against all odds, several different groups of castaways make it back to the UK, with differing accounts of what went went wrong and who was to blame.
Grann works the source material into a story that is strongly factual, with very limited authorial interventions. The result is very readable, extremely compelling - an absolute delight.… (mais)