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Erik Larson
Erik Larson is the American narrative-nonfiction writer behind The Devil in the White City (2003), Thunderstruck, In the Garden of Beasts, Dead Wake, The Splendid and the Vile (2020), and The Demon of Unrest (2024). He treats long-form history as literature.
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Years active
2003-2024
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The Demon of Unrest
by Erik Larson
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson 2024 review. The five months between Lincoln's November 1860 election and Fort Sumter. Larson's follow-up to The Splendid and the Vile and one of the canonical narrative non-fiction books of the year.
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson 2003 review. The 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the serial killer H. H. Holmes, whose hotel operated three blocks from the fairgrounds. The narrative-nonfiction bestseller that defined the contemporary popular-history register.
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The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson 2024 review. The five months between Lincoln's November 1860 election and Fort Sumter. Larson's follow-up to The Splendid and the Vile and one of the canonical narrative non-fiction books of the year.
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson 2003 review. The 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the serial killer H. H. Holmes, whose hotel operated three blocks from the fairgrounds. The narrative-nonfiction bestseller that defined the contemporary popular-history register.