Erik Larson’s latest work of narrative nonfiction is DEAD WAKE: THE LAST CROSSING OF THE LUSITANIA, which became an immediate New York Times bestseller. His saga of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing, and lingered on various NYT best-seller lists for the better part of a decade. Hulu plans to adapt the book for a limited TV series, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese as executive producers. Erik’s IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, about America’s first ambassador to Nazi Germany and his daughter, has been optioned by Tom Hanks for development as a feature film.
His next book, THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE: A SAGA OF CHURCHILL, FAMILY, AND DEFIANCE DURING THE BLITZ, due out in early spring 2020, is a story of geopolitical brinksmanship during Churchill’s first year as prime minister, but also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country house, Chequers, and his “full-moon home,” Ditchley, where Churchill, his family, and his “Secret Circle” convene when the moon is in its brightest phases and the bombing threat is highest.
Erik is a former features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and other publications.
He has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, the University of Oregon, and the Chuckanut Writers Conference, and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. A former resident of Seattle, he now lives in Manhattan with his wife, a neonatologist and author of the nonfiction memoir, ALMOST HOME, which, as Erik puts it, "could make a stone cry." They have three daughters in far-flung locations and professions.
0 有用 皮师傅 2020-05-23 20:41:19
1933年上任的美国驻德大使,在首都见证Third Reich崛起
0 有用 阳伞公司 2020-05-15 07:43:03
八十年前的事情 今天仍旧在发生
0 有用 Algiersea 2022-06-02 06:37:32
Quite entertaining, quite a new and rare perspective, but I still doubt its authenticity, which shouldn’t haven happened because it a non-fiction novel. Maybe it’s just because of the romance and bias... Quite entertaining, quite a new and rare perspective, but I still doubt its authenticity, which shouldn’t haven happened because it a non-fiction novel. Maybe it’s just because of the romance and biases I could feel from such perspective…and I’m gonna finish my 2 page essay in the next half an hour…😅😅😅 (展开)
0 有用 Gioia 2012-03-06 20:50:30
要么和魔鬼作交易,要么坚持自由的精神,此事难以两全。Dodd选择了做一个优秀的史学家,因而成为了“不职业”的外交官。// 意识形态真是人们认知世界的巨大障碍。
0 有用 Eagle 2013-03-24 16:13:14
Too much info can't be utterly covered, inevitably descends to a bedtime journal
0 有用 Algiersea 2022-06-02 06:37:32
Quite entertaining, quite a new and rare perspective, but I still doubt its authenticity, which shouldn’t haven happened because it a non-fiction novel. Maybe it’s just because of the romance and bias... Quite entertaining, quite a new and rare perspective, but I still doubt its authenticity, which shouldn’t haven happened because it a non-fiction novel. Maybe it’s just because of the romance and biases I could feel from such perspective…and I’m gonna finish my 2 page essay in the next half an hour…😅😅😅 (展开)
0 有用 Pascano 2021-08-14 16:28:02
环环相扣,动人心弦。
0 有用 Club Gary 2021-05-05 09:14:16
住在Tiergarten不远处的我,每次走过这里都多了一点紧张和兴奋的颤栗。
0 有用 MackAFish 2021-01-24 05:51:51
芝大的历史教授想寻找一个安静写作做学术的环境(比如去北欧某小国当外交官)机缘巧合在1933年成为了美国驻德大使;大使的学术研究专注于美国南部历史,把一战后德国受到的对待和南北战争后南方奴隶主面对的“压迫”相提并论,他和同时代大多数人一样抱有着排犹偏见却又认为德国的作为过于粗暴极端;所有人对德国重回温和理性道路一直充满希望,一次次错失将第三帝国扼杀在萌芽状态。。。这本书的主人公没有黑白分明的正义和邪... 芝大的历史教授想寻找一个安静写作做学术的环境(比如去北欧某小国当外交官)机缘巧合在1933年成为了美国驻德大使;大使的学术研究专注于美国南部历史,把一战后德国受到的对待和南北战争后南方奴隶主面对的“压迫”相提并论,他和同时代大多数人一样抱有着排犹偏见却又认为德国的作为过于粗暴极端;所有人对德国重回温和理性道路一直充满希望,一次次错失将第三帝国扼杀在萌芽状态。。。这本书的主人公没有黑白分明的正义和邪恶,没有辛德勒名单中那样的英雄主义,有限的良知和时代赋予他们的局限性使得我们今天看来更显得他们可悲又可憎。可是他们就是我们这样的普通人啊,只是因为他们把自己放在了历史的舞台上,一切人性的弱点都被后人审视的眼光评判 (展开)
0 有用 未时 2021-01-10 03:30:29
那个年代的历史故事可多视角反复看(以防对当今世界消化不良),很喜欢这个简洁朴实的写作风格,准备去翻翻作者别的书......