Erik Larson

more photos (1)





Peter
95 books | 200 friends

Maria H...
63 books | 334 friends

Susan W...
181 books | 2,836 friends

Jeannie...
1,413 books | 2,370 friends

Garth S...
12 books | 158 friends

Margaret
80 books | 3 friends



Erik is following 1 person

Erik Larson

Goodreads author profile


url

born
in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
gender
male

website

genre

member since
January 2011


About this author

Erik Larson, author of the international bestseller Isaac's Storm, was nominated for a National Book Award for The Devil in the White City. He is a former features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time magazine, where he is still a contributing writer. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and other publications.

Larson has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and the University of Oregon, and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. He lives in Seattle with his wife, three daughters, a dwarf hamster, a Chinese fighting fish, and a golden retriever named Molly.


A couple of weeks ago, while browsing the shelves of a used-book store here in Paris, I came across a detective novel by Andrea Camilleri, called The Snack Thief. One of my daughters, a State Department expert on international crime who is fluent in Italian and very good at Italian cooking, was with me, and recommended it. (She, of course, had read it in Italian.) I loved it, and totally fell f... Read more of this blog post »
7 comments
Twitter_icon  ·   • 
Published on January 14, 2013 09:41 • 748 views • Tags: andrea-camilleri, chef, dog, italian, montalbano, paris, snack, terracotta
Average rating: 3.89 · 242,772 ratings · 25,783 reviews · 10 distinct works · Similar authors
The Devil in the White City...
by
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 162,459 ratings — published 2002 — 43 editions
In the Garden of Beasts: Lo...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 54,506 ratings — published 2011 — 36 editions
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Tim...
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 13,075 ratings — published 1999 — 24 editions
Thunderstruck
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 12,174 ratings — published 2006 — 27 editions
Lethal Passage: The Story o...
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions
The Naked Consumer: How Our...
by
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions
The Lost Coast
3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1997
De meteoroloog en de storm ...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
A Short History of Nearly E...
by
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 81,483 ratings — published 2003 — 86 editions
Project Management: The Man...
by
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings17 editions
More books by Erik Larson…

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Interviews

May 2011, Erik Larson
"The author of The Devil in the White City takes on history's worst villains with In the Garden of Beasts, his new nonfiction opus about the Nazi ascendance in 1933 Berlin." ...More

more interviews »

Paris Stories
Erik is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading

 

Erik's Recent Updates

Erik is reading Paris Stories: If you love Paris, or the idea of Paris, these stories are "parfait!" In an introduction, Michael Ondaatje quotes Ms. Gallant as writing, "Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death." I like that. And by the way, if you haven't read Ondaatje's "The English Patient," you must.
Paris Stories
Erik is currently reading
Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant
Erik rated a book 5 of 5 stars
Red Gold by Alan Furst
Whew. Finished this long ago. Loved it. But then, I'm an Alan Furst junkie.
Erik added a photo
258787
253558
"I'm currently RE-reading this book--see my blog for more! Love Alan Furst."
Erik made a comment on do NOT wake me up
"Awwwwwww. What a sweepy widdo doggie!"
Erik rated a book 5 of 5 stars
The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbø
Excellent. Brisk, dark, suspenseful to the end.
Erik rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Testimony by Anita Shreve
Testimony
by Anita Shreve
read in February, 2011
Finished a while ago. I liked it. Very good, very readable, inherently depressing, ultimately satisfying.
Erik voted on a poll
Do you write a book blog?

He voted for: Yes! (If you choose this, feel free to post a link to it in the comments.)
Erik rated a book 3 of 5 stars
In God We Trust by Jean Shepherd
More of Erik's books…
“It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.”
Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

“I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

Polls

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author




No comments have been added yet.