Episode 52: David Grann

 

David Grann is a New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. His latest is book, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. The book was published in April by Doubleday, and explores one of the most sinister crimes and racial injustices in American history.

Grann’s first book, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, was adapted into a major motion picture and is in theaters now.

He’s also the author of The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, which contains many of his New Yorker stories. That book was named by Men’s Journal as one of the best true crime books ever written.

Grann’s stories have appeared in The Best American Crime Writing; The Best American Sports Writing; and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has previously written for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic.

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