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Erik Larson's book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness and the Fair that Changed America is set in which American city?
a. Boston
b. Chicago
c. New York
d. Savannah
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Erik Larson

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born

January 01, 1954

gender

male

place of birth

Brooklyn, New York, The United States

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Nonfiction

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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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avg rating: 3.87 | 33,886 ratings | 6,563 reviews | 10 distinct works | 32 fans

	The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson, Tony Goldwyn (Narrator) avg rating 3.91 — 19,842 ratings — published 2003 20 editions	my rating:
	Thunderstruck by Erik Larson avg rating 3.44 — 2,574 ratings — published 2006 15 editions	my rating:
	Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson avg rating 3.93 — 1,690 ratings — published 1999 17 editions	my rating:
	Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun by Erik Larson avg rating 3.33 — 39 ratings — published 1995 5 editions	my rating:
	The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities by Erik Larson avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published 1992 2 editions	my rating:
	The Matzo Mitzvah: Even More Tales My Great-Great-Grandfather Might Tell About Life in a Ghetto of Russia in the Time of the Czars by Herman I. Kantor, Erik Larson avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1996 2 editions	my rating:
	Thunderstruck by Erik Larson avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2006	my rating:
	The Miraculous Milk Cow: More Tales My Great-Great-Grandfather Might Tell About Life in the Ghetto of Russia in the Time of the Czars by Herman I. Kantor, Erik Larson avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1994 2 editions	my rating:
	The Bear and the Baby: Still More Tales My Great-Great-Grandfather Might Tell About Life in a Ghetto of Russia in the Time of the Czars by Herman I. Kantor, Erik Larson avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1995 2 editions	my rating:
	Project Management: The Managerial Process (Irwin/Mcgraw Hill Series in Operations and Decision Sciences.) by Clifford F. Gray, Erik Larson avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1999	my rating:

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"The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. "
— Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America)

tags: depression, historical, novel

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"alice in wonder land"
— Erik Larson (Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun)

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"Snow fell. Carolers moved among the mansions of Prairie Avenue, pausing now and then to enter the fine houses for hot mulled cider and cocoa. The air was scented with woodsmoke and roasting duck. In Graceland Cemetery, to the north, young couples raced their sleighs over the snow-heaped undulations, pulling their blankets especially tight as they passed the dark and dour tombs of Chicago’s richest and most powerful men, the tombs’ bleakness made all the more profound by their juxtaposition against the night-blued snow […]
Outside the snow muffled the concussion of passing horses. Trains bearing fangs of ice tore through the crossing at Wallace."
— Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City)

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