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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.


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Hard to believe it's already mid-August, and the back-to-school ads have already begun to appear--much to my youngest daughter's chagrin. For me, though, it seems like summer's just begun, because at last the rigors of launching a new book are receding AND because here in Seattle the weather, oh-so-belatedly, is starting to deliver the sunny, dry, cool days that make Seattle's summers so amazing, ... read more »
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The Devil in the White City: M...
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love,...
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 14,865 ratings — published 2011 — 18 editions
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Thunderstruck
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 7,207 ratings — published 2006 — 21 editions
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time,...
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Lethal Passage: The Story of a...
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions
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The Naked Consumer: How Our Pr...
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Discipline
2.67 of 5 stars 2.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010
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Savage Dragon Volume 2: A Forc...
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"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

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"I'm currently RE-reading this book--see my blog for more! Love Alan Furst."
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Excellent. Brisk, dark, suspenseful to the end.
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Testimony by Anita Shreve
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Finished a while ago. I liked it. Very good, very readable, inherently depressing, ultimately satisfying.
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In God We Trust by Jean Shepherd
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Very good, in a distinctly Maupin way. Funny, light, with lots of little insights into San Francisco, beyond the well-trod tourist paths. But, I do think you have to have followed the whole series to really get it, and to understand the evolution of...more
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“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 must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.”
Erik Larson

“My favorite “trick” is to stop writing at a point where I know that I can pick up easily the next day. I’ll stop in mid-paragraph, often in midsentence. It makes getting out of bed so much easier, because I know that all I’ll have to do to be productive is complete the sentence. And by then I’ll be seated at my desk, coffee and Oreo cookie at hand, the morning’s inertia overcome. There’s an added advantage: The human brain hates incomplete sentences. All night my mind will have secretly worked on the passage and likely mapped out the remainder of the page, even the chapter, while simultaneously sending me on a dinner date with Cate Blanchett.”
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