Erik Larson is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, which examines how Winston Churchill and his “Secret Circle” went about surviving the German air campaign of 1940-41. Larson’s The Devil in the White City is set to be a Hulu limited series; his In the Garden of Beasts is under option by Tom Hanks for a feature film. He recently published an audio-original ghost story, No One Goes Alone, which has been optioned by Chernin Entertainment, in association with Netflix. His Thunderstruck has been optioned by Sony Pictures Television for a limited TV series. Larson lives in Manhattan with his wife, who is a writer and retired neonatologist; they have three grown daughters.
"By far his best and most enthralling work of novelistic
history….Powerful, poignant…a transportingly true story."--The New
York Times
"Tells a fascinating story brilliantly well."--Financial Times
"Highly compelling...Larson brings Berlin roaring to life in all
its glamour and horror...a welcome new chapter in the vast canon of
World War II."--Christian Science Monitor
"Terrific."--Los Angeles Times
“A stunning work of history.”--Newsweek
“Larson has meticulously researched the Dodds’ intimate witness to
Hitler’s ascendancy and created an edifying narrative of this
historical byway that has all the pleasures of a political
thriller….a fresh picture of these terrrible events.”--The New York
Times Book Review
"Larson has taken a brilliant idea and turned it into a gripping
book."--Women's Wear Daily
"Harrowingly suspenseful." Vogue.com
"A gripping, deeply-intimate narrative with a climax that reads
like the best political thriller, where we are stunned with each
turn of the page."--Louisville Courier Journal
"Electrifying reading...fascinating." Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“Larson’s latest chronicle of history has as much excitement as a
thriller novel, and it’s all the more thrilling because it’s all
true.”--Asbury Park Press
"A superb book...nothing less than masterful."--Toronto Globe and
Mail
“Even though we know how it will end — the book's climax, the Night
of the Long Knives, being just the beginning, this is a
page-turner, full of flesh and blood people and monsters too, whose
charms are particularly disturbing.”--Portland Herald
"Larson succeeds brilliantly…offers a fascinating window into the
year when the world began its slow slide into war."--Maclean's
Magazine
"Erik Larson tackles this outstanding period of history as fully
and compellingly as he portrayed the events in his bestseller, THE
DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY. With each page, more horrors are revealed,
making it impossible to put down. IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS reads
like the true thriller it is."--BookReporter.com
"Larson's strengths as a storyteller have never been stronger than
they are here, and this story is far more important than either
"The Devil in the White City" or "Thunderstruck." How the United
States dithered as Hitler rose to power is a cautionary tale that
bears repeating, and Larson has told it masterfully."--Cleveland
Plain Dealer
“Reads like an elegant thriller…utterly compelling… marvelous
stuff. An excellent and entertaining book that deserves to be a
bestseller, and probably will be.”—The Washington Post
“Larson's scholarship is impressive, but it's his pacing and knack
for suspense that elevates the book from the matter-of-fact to the
sublime.”--Pittsburgh Review
“A master at writing true tales as riveting as fiction.”--People (3
1/2 stars)
"Larson has done it again, expertly weaving together a fresh new
narrative from ominous days of the 20th century."--Associated
Press
""Mesmerizing...cinematic, improbable yet true."--Philadelphia
Inquirer
"[L]ike slipping slowly into a nightmare, with logic perverted and
morality upended….It all makes for a powerful, unsettling
immediacy."--Bruce Handy, Vanity Fair
“Dazzling….Reads like a suspense novel, replete with colorful
characters, both familiar and those previously relegated to the
shadows. Like Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories or
Victor Klemperer’s Diaries, IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS is an
on-the-ground documentary of a society going mad in slow
motion."--The Chicago Sun-Times
“[G]ripping, a nightmare narrative of a terrible time. It
raises again the question never fully answered about the Nazi
era—what evil humans are capable of, and what means are necessary
to cage the beast.”--The Seattle Times
"In this mesmerizing portrait of the Nazi capital, Larson plumbs a
far more diabolical urban cauldron than in his bestselling The
Devil in the White City...a vivid, atmospheric panorama of the
Third Reich and its leaders, including murderous Nazi factional
infighting, through the accretion of small crimes and petty
thuggery."--Publishers Weekly(Starred Review)
Praise for Erik Larson
THUNDERSTRUCK
“A ripping yarn of murder and invention.”—Los Angeles Times
“Larson’s gift for rendering an historical era with vibrant
tactility and filling it with surprising personalities makes
Thunderstruck an irresistible tale.”—The Washington Post Book
World
“Gripping….An edge-of-the-seat read.”—People
DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY
“[Larson] relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this
nonfiction book the dramatic effect of a novel….a dynamic,
enveloping book.”
—The New York Times
“A hugely engrossing chronicle of events public and private.
Exceedingly well-documented, exhaustive without being excessive,
and utterly fascinating.”
—Chicago Tribune
“An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling,
sleep-defying fiction.”—Time Out New York
ISAAC’S STORM
“A gripping account…fascinating to its core, and all the more
compelling for being true.”—New York Times Book Review
“Superb...Larson has made the Great Hurricane live again.”—The Wall
Street Journal
“Gripping….The Jaws of hurricane yarns.”—Newsday
Larson (Devil in the White City) delivers another spellbinding and lively history in this exploration of Adolf Hitler's rise to power as seen by U.S. Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd and his daughter, Martha. Larson contrasts Dodd's family life with the larger political and cultural shifts occurring in the years leading up to WWII. And he provides new insights into U.S. foreign policy via a close examination of Dodd's letters and writings. Stephen Hoye provides compelling narration and reads with a commanding voice that is deep but never intrusive. His narration is deliberate and forces listeners pay close attention to the author's prose. He also captures Martha's emotion and excitement as she falls in-and eventually out of-line with the Nazi Party and engages in several affairs. The narrator's tone and delivery match Larson's prose, never condemning Martha's actions, but simply presenting her view of the world. At times, Hoye's narration slows, but his emphasis, inflection, flawless pronunciation, and energy will keep listeners engaged until the very end. A Crown hardcover. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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