So it wasn’t all that surprising when, on a sunny morning in April, Grann showed up at the wrong location for our interview. While researching The Lost City of Z, his 2009 book about a Victorian-era adventurer who went missing in the Amazon and never returned, he briefly got lost in the Amazon himself. He doesn’t hike or camp, and he has a tendency to take the wrong train when he rides the subway. Thanks to a degenerative eye condition, the longtime New Yorker writer sees the world as though looking through a windshield during a rainstorm. He currently lives in New York with his wife and two children.David Grann aboard the South Street Seaport Museum’s tall ship, the Wavertree.ĭavid Grann is the first to say he isn’t a natural-born explorer. Watson Fellowship and did research in Mexico, where he began his career in journalism.
After graduating from Connecticut College, in 1989, he received a Thomas J.
He holds master’s degrees in international relations (from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy) and creative writing (from Boston University). Before joining The New Yorker, he was a senior editor at The New Republic and, from 1995 to 1996, the executive editor of the newspaper The Hill. Grann has previously written for the Times Magazine, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. Grann’s next book, “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder,” will be published in 2023. Grann has twice received the Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in his opinion about the constitutionality of the death penalty. The story received a George Polk Award and the Silver Gavel Award, and it was cited by U.S.
“ Trial by Fire,” another magazine piece in the collection, exposed how junk science led to the execution of a likely innocent man in Texas.
Grann’s other book, “ The Devil and Sherlock Holmes,” contains many of his New Yorker stories, which focus on everything from the mysterious death of the world’s greatest Sherlock Holmes expert to a Polish writer who allegedly left clues to a real murder in his postmodern novel. He is also the author of “ The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon,” which was adapted into a major motion picture. He is the author of, most recently, “ The White Darkness,” and of “ Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I.,” which won an Edgar Award, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and was named one of the best books of 2017 by the Wall Street Journal, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and other publications. David Grann has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2003.
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