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Erik Larson is a master of narrative non-fiction. His vividly written, bestselling books have won several awards and been published worldwide.

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Erik Larson is a master of narrative non-fiction. His vividly written, bestselling books have won several awards and been published worldwide.

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PERSONAL LIFE

  • Erik Larson was born on January 3, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York.
  • In his earlier years, Erik wanted to become a cartoonist. He then shifted into writing and first finished a 75-page untitled novel.
  • He continued with his illustrations and writing until he reached college. Erik enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania where he studied Russian history, language, and culture and graduated summa cum laude.

PROFESSIONAL WRITING CAREER

  • Larson’s first job was in New York as an editorial assistant, meaning gopher, for a publisher in New York while taking journalism graduate school at Columbia University.
  • His first journalism job was for the Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown, Pa., then he got hired by the Wall Street Journal and later as a contributing writer for Time Magazine.
  • His magazine stories appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, and other publications.
  • He got married and pursued novel writing. His first book was The Naked Consumer, about how companies spy on individual consumers.
  • Larson soon went on writing eight books, six of which became New York Times best-sellers.
  • He has also taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, the University of Oregon, and the Chuckanut Writers Conference in Bellingham, Washington.

PUBLISHED BOOKS

  • Title: The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During The Blitz
    • Author: Erik Larson
    • Originally published: February 25, 2020 by the Crown Publishing Group
    • Genre: Biography
  • Title: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
    • Originally published: March 3, 2015
    • Author: Erik Larson
    • Genre: BiographyPublisher: Crown Publishing Group
    • Awards: Goodreads Choice Awards Best History & Biography
  • Title: In the Garden of Beasts
    • Author: Erik Larson
    • Originally published: May 10, 2011
    • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
    • Genre: History
    • Awards: 2011 Christian Science Monitor 15 Best Nonfiction Books
  • Title: Thunderstruck
    • Originally published: October 24, 2006
    • Author: Erik Larson
    • Genre: Biography, True crime
    • Publisher: Crown Publishers
    • Awards: New York Times bestseller
  • Title: The Devil in the White City
    • Originally published: October 16, 2002
    • Author: Erik Larson
    • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
    • Genres: Biography, historical non-fiction, true crime
    • Awards: Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
  • Title: Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
    • Author: Erik Larson
    • Originally published: August 24, 1999
    • Publisher: Random House
    • Genre: Biography
    • Awards: American Meteorology Society’s prestigious Louis J. Battan Author’s Award.
  • Title: Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
    • Originally published: January 15, 1995
    • Author: Erik Larson
    • Genre: Non-fiction, true crime
    • Publisher: Vintage Books
  • Title: The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities
    • Originally published: February 1, 1994
    • Author: Erik Larson
    • Publisher: Penguin Books
    • Genres: Non-fiction
  • Summary and Review:
    • After receiving a sudden surge of junk mail directed at new parents—even though my wife at the time was merely pregnant—I set out to explore the lengths companies go to spy on individual consumers. It was fascinating, and a little scary. For example, I discovered one market-research firm that put human spies in stores to follow every move a shopper made, and another company that secretly commandeered viewers’ televisions to show them commercials no one else got to see. The book became the subject of a PBS documentary, “We Know Where You Live”, in which yours truly was the main character. I even got to slink around in a trench coat and lurk behind trees.

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