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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
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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David Grann
American journalist (born 1967)
David Elliot Grann (born March 10, 1967) is an American journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author.
His first book, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, was published by Doubleday in February 2009. After its first week of publication, it debuted on The New York Times bestseller list at No. 4[1] and later reached No. 1.[2] Grann's articles have been collected in several anthologies, including What We Saw: The Events of September 11, 2001, The Best American Crime Writing of 2004 and 2005, and The Best American Sports Writing of 2003 and 2006.[3] He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post,The Wall Street Journal, and The Weekly Standard.[3]
According to a profile in Slate, Grann has a reputation as a "workhorse reporter", which has made him a popular journalist who "inspires a devotion in readers that can border on the obsessive."[4]
Early life
Grann was born on March 10,
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