Erik Larson

Erik Larson is an American journalist who writes mostly historical nonfiction. Larson is best known for The Devil in the White City, which pairs the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with a serial killer working nearby and won the 2004 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Other books include Isaac's Storm, about a deadly hurricane, In the Garden of Beasts, set in Hitler's Berlin, and Dead Wake, published in 2015.