David Grann

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David Grann is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z. Killers of the Flower Moon was a finalist for The National Book Award and won an Edgar Allan Poe Award. Look for David Grann’s latest book, The Wager, coming soon!

He is also the author of The White Darkness and the collection The Devil and Sherlock Holmes . Grann's storytelling has garnered several honors, including a George Polk Award. He lives with his wife and children in New York.


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Killers of the Flower Moon:...

4.14 avg rating — 461,380 ratings — published 2017 — 129 editions
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwr...

4.17 avg rating — 227,320 ratings — published 2023 — 60 editions
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale ...

3.90 avg rating — 113,620 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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The Devil & Sherlock Holmes...

3.79 avg rating — 11,000 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
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The White Darkness

3.97 avg rating — 10,447 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions
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Killers of the Flower Moon:...

4.24 avg rating — 4,432 ratings9 editions
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The Old Man and the Gun: An...

3.73 avg rating — 2,392 ratings — published 2018
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Trial By Fire: L'état du Te...

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The Yankee Comandante

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“History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of hindsight like an arrogant detective who seems to know the end of the mystery from the outset.”
David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI

“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out.”
David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“We all impose some coherence—some meaning—on the chaotic events of our existence. We rummage through the raw images of our memories, selecting, burnishing, erasing. We emerge as the heroes of our stories, allowing us to live with what we have done—or haven’t done.”
David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

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