David Grann

The son of the first woman CEO of a major publishing firm and the director of the Bennett Cancer Center in Connecticut, David Grann grew up hoping to become a novelist. After being hired as a copy editor at The Hill, a Washington, D.C. political paper, however, Grann began utilizing his journalistic skills, and quickly advanced to become its executive editor. Grann would later move on to The New Yorker, where his articles and essays received critical acclaim and earned him a 2009 George Polk Award, as well as spots on the shortlists for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the National Magazine Award. Grann’s two most prominent books, The Lost City of Z and Killers of the Flower Moon, have been adapted for the screen, nominated for numerous awards, and served as a showcase for Grann’s singular and poetic blend of fact and fiction. His books are intimately-detailed, meticulously-researched, and provide a way for the plain facts of history to dovetail seamlessly with Grann’s sensitive, empathetic musings on human nature, cultural collision, greed, ambition, and obsession.