David Grann

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". David Elliot Grann (born March 10, 1967) is an American journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author.

His first book, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, was published by Doubleday in February 2009. After its first week of publication, it debuted on The New York Times bestseller list at No. 4[1] and later reached No. 1.[2] Grann's articles have been collected in several anthologies, including What We Saw: The Events of September 11, 2001, The Best American Crime Writing of 2004 and 2005, and The Best American Sports Writing of 2003 and 2006.[3] He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Weekly Standard.[3]

According to a profile in Slate, Grann has a reputation as a "workhorse reporter", which has made him a popular journalist who "inspires a devotion in readers that can border on the obsessive."[4]

Early life

Grann was born on March 10, 1967, to Phyllis E. Grann and Victor Grann. His mother is the former CEO of Putnam Penguin and the first woman CEO of a major publishing firm.[5] His father is an oncologist and Director of the Bennett Cancer Center in Stamford, Connecticut. Grann has two siblings, Edward and Alison.[6]

Career

He graduated from Connecticut College in 1989 with a B.A. in Government.[7] While still in college, Grann received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and conducted research in Mexico, where he began his career as a freelance journalist.[7]

He received a master's degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1993.[3][8] At that point primarily interested in fiction, Grann hoped to develop a career as a novelist.[9]

In 1994 he was hired as a copy editor at The Hill, a Washington, D.C.–based newspaper covering the United States Congress.[3] The same year, Grann earned a master's degree in creative writing from Boston University,[3][8] where he taught courses in creative writing and fiction.[9] He was named The Hill's executive editor in 1995.[3][7] In 1996, Grann became a senior editor at The New Republic.[3][8] He joined The New Yorker in 2003 as a staff writer.[3][7] He was a finalist for the Michael Kelly Award in 2005.[10]

In 2009, he received both the George Polk Award and Sigma Delta Chi Award for his New Yorker piece "Trial By Fire", about Cameron Todd Willingham. Another New Yorker investigative article, "The Mark of a Masterpiece", raised questions about the methods of Peter Paul Biro, who claimed to use fingerprints to help authenticate lost masterpieces.[11] Biro sued Grann and The New Yorker for libel,[12][13] but the case was summarily dismissed.[14][15] The article was a finalist for the 2010 National Magazine Award.[16]

The Lost City of Z

Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Grann's 2009 non-fiction book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon recounts the odyssey of the notable British explorer, Captain Percy Fawcett who, in 1925, disappeared with his son in the Amazon while looking for the Lost City of Z. For decades, explorers and scientists have tried to find evidence of both his party and the Lost City of Z. Grann also trekked into the Amazon. In his book, he reveals new evidence about how Fawcett died and shows that "Z" may have existed.[17][18][19]

Killers of the Flower Moon

Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In March 2014, Grann said he was working on a new book about the Osage Indian murders, considered "one of the most sinister crimes in American history."[20] His book Killers of the Flower Moon: An American Crime and the Birth of the FBI was published in 2017, chronicling "a tale of murder, betrayal, heroism and a nation's struggle to leave its frontier culture behind and enter the modern world."[21] It was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award[22] and later became #1 on The New York Times bestseller list.[23] The film adaptation, Killers of the Flower Moon, was directed by Martin Scorsese and released in October 2023.[24]

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Grann's latest book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, was published in April 2023. It debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list and stayed on the list for 26 weeks.[25] A reviewer in The Guardian wrote, “The Wager is one of the finest nonfiction books I've ever read. I can only offer the highest praise a writer can give: endless envy, as deep and salty as the sea."[26] Former President Barack Obama selected The Wager as one of his summer reading books, a popular booklist he shares annually.[27]

Other books

Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". A collection of twelve previously-published Grann essays, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, was published in March 2010.

Another book, The White Darkness, was published in October 2018.

Personal life

Grann has two children. As of 2017 he resided in New York.[28]

Bibliography

Articles

Collections:

  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".. Collection of 12 articles:
    • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
    • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
    • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
    • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
    • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
    • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
    • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
    • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
    • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
    • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
    • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
    • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".. Collection of 3 articles:
    "The Old Man and the Gun: Forrest Tucker had a long career robbing banks, and he wasn't willing to retire", "True Crime: A postmodern murder mystery", "The Chameleon: The many lives of Frédéric Bourdin"

Books

  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". His article "The Lost City of Z: A quest to uncover the secrets of the Amazon" is about the same subject.
  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". His article "The Marked Woman: How an Osage Indian family became the prime target of one of the most sinister crimes in American history" is about the same subject.
  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Based on his article "The White Darkness".
  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".

Adaptations

Forthcoming:

Awards

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Potts, Rolf and Grann, David. "David Grann", RolfPotts.com (March 2009). Accessed May 26, 2009.
  4. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  5. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  6. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  7. ↑ a b c d "Contributors: David Grann." The New Yorker. No date. Accessed May 26, 2009.
  8. ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  9. ↑ a b "David Grann on murder, madness and writing for The New Yorker" by Andrea Pitzer, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, April 5, 2010
  10. ↑ Press release: The 2005 Michael Kelly Award, June 6, 2005 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  11. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  12. ↑ "Art Analyst Sues The New Yorker" by Julia Filip, Courthouse News Service (July 1, 2011) Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  13. ↑ "Forensic Art Expert Sues New Yorker – Author Wants $2 million for defamation over David Grann piece" by Dylan Byers, Adweek, June 30, 2011
  14. ↑ 11 Civ. 4442 (JPO) Peter Paul Biro v. ... David Grann ... Script error: No such module "webarchive"., United States District Court – Southern District of New York
  15. ↑ "Art Authenticator Loses Defamation Suit Against the New Yorker Script error: No such module "webarchive"., by Albert Samaha, Village Voice blog, August 5, 2013
  16. ↑ "Check Out ASME's National Magazine Awards Finalists" by Caroline Stanley, FlavorWire.com, 5 April 2011
  17. ↑ Heckenberger, Michael. The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place, and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, A.D. 1000–2000. New York: Routledge, 2005. Template:ISBN;
  18. ↑ Heckenberger, Michael J.; Kuikuro, Afukaka; Kuikuro, Urissapá Tabata; Russell, J. Christian; Schmidt, Morgan; Fausto, Carlos; and Franchetto, Bruna. "Amazonia 1492: Pristine Forest or Cultural Parkland?" Science. April 25, 2003
  19. ↑ Heckenberger, Michael J. "Manioc Agriculture and Sedentism in Amazonia: The Upper Xingu Example." Antiquity. September 1998.
  20. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  21. ↑ Sean Woods, "'Killers of the Flower Moon': Inside David Grann's New True-Crime Epic," Rolling Stone, April 17, 2017.
  22. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  23. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  24. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  25. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  26. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".|title=The Wager Review
  27. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  28. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  29. ↑ Siegel, Tatiana. "Paramount, Brad Pitt Find 'Lost City'," Variety (March 31, 2008).
  30. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  31. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  32. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  33. ↑ Chang, Justin. "James Gray's hauntingly beautiful 'The Lost City of Z' is Charlie Hunnam's finest performance," Los Angeles Times (April 13, 2017).
  34. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  35. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  36. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  37. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  38. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  39. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  40. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  41. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  42. ↑ "The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Announces 2013-2014 Fellows: David Grann, Téa Obreht, Anthony Grafton, Uwem Akpan among 2013-14 Cullman Center Fellows," New York Public Library (March 25, 2013).

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

External links

Script error: No such module "Side box".

Template:David Grann Script error: No such module "Authority control".

Retrieved from "http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=David_Grann&oldid=7837944"