David Grann
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David Grann (born March 10, 1967) is an American journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and a best-selling 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 #4.
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. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Weekly Standard. 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."
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The Wager
Read the insightsDavid Grann is a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of The Lost City of Z and Killers of the Flower Moon, a National Book Award finalist that Martin Scorsese adapted for the screen. In The Wager, David Grann tells the story of a British warship wrecked off Patagonia in 1741 and of the castaways who survived it, only to return home with sharply conflicting accounts of what they had done. Drawing on journals, letters and naval records, he turns a shipwreck into a study of empire, authority and human nature under pressure. These insights explore what the story reveals about how institutions treat ordinary people, why order breaks down when survival is at stake, and how the stories we tell about the past are shaped by those with the power to tell them.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Read the insightsAcross the plains of Osage, Oklahoma, small flowers begin to bloom in April. By May, however, larger plants spring up, overshadow, and choke out the smaller flowers that had blossomed first. The Osage Indians refer to May as the season of “the flower-killing moon.” This natural cycle is a fitting metaphor for the systematic murder of Osage Indians at the hands of greedy settlers wanting claim to Osage lands.