Gun culture in the U.S., Gun law in the U.S., Gun politics in the U.S., Gun violence in the U.S. The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities They reside in New York City and maintain a home in Seattle, Washington. Larson has lived in Philadelphia Bristol, Pennsylvania San Francisco and Baltimore. Larson has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State University, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and the University of Oregon, and he has spoken to audiences across the United States. Larson's 2006 book Thunderstruck intersperses the story of Hawley Harvey Crippen with that of Guglielmo Marconi and the invention of radio. In a 2016 interview with the Knoxville Mercury, Larson stated he does all of his own research, asking, "why should I let anybody else have that fun?" He also rejected the idea of trying to imagine or take factual liberties with scenes and conversations from the past, stating that in his work, "anything that appears in quote is something that came from a historical document." He included among his literary inspirations David McCullough, Barbara Tuchman, David Halberstam, and Walter Lord. Larson has written a number of books, mostly historical nonfiction. Books Įrik Larson talks about In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and An American Family in Hitler's Berlin on Bookbits radio. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and other publications. He later became a features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time, where he is still a contributing writer.
Larson's first newspaper job was with the Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown, Pennsylvania, where he wrote about murder, witches, environmental poisons, and other "equally pleasant" things. He was inspired to go into journalism after seeing the movie All the President's Men. After a year off, he attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, graduating in 1978. He studied Russian history at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude in 1976.
Larson was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Freeport, Long Island, New York. Larson released his first fiction novel, in audiobook format only, titled No One Goes Alone on September 28, 2021.
The Devil in the White City won the 2004 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category, among other awards. Holmes that were committed in the city around the time of the Fair. He has written a number of bestsellers, including The Devil in the White City (2003), about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and a series of murders by H. Columbia University Graduate School of JournalismĮrik Larson (born January 3, 1954) is an American journalist and author of mostly nonfiction books.
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