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David Grann

David Elliot Grann (born March 10, 1967) is an American journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author.

David Grann

(1967-03-10) March 10, 1967

Staff writer, book author, journalist

Kyra Darnton
(m. 2000)

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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[1] and later reached #1.[2] 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.[3] He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Weekly Standard.[3]


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."[4]

Early life[edit]

Grann was born on March 10, 1967, to Phyllis E. Grann and Victor Grann. His mother is the former CEO of Putnam Penguin and the first woman CEO of a major publishing firm.[5] His father is an oncologist and Director of the Bennett Cancer Center in Stamford, Connecticut. Grann has two siblings, Edward and Alison.[6]

Personal life[edit]

Grann has two children. As of 2017 he resided in New York.[27]

Bibliography[edit]

Articles[edit]

Collections:

(2016), film directed by James Gray, based on book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon[28][29][30][31][32]

The Lost City of Z

(2016) The film was based on a 2008 article in The New Yorker titled "True Crime: A Postmodern Murder Mystery."

Dark Crimes

(2018), film directed by David Lowery, based on article "The Old Man and the Gun: Forrest Tucker had a long career robbing banks, and he wasn't willing to retire"[33]

The Old Man & the Gun

(2018), film directed by Edward Zwick, based on article "Trial by Fire: Did Texas execute an innocent man?"[34]

Trial by Fire

(2023), film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI[35][36][37][38]

Killers of the Flower Moon

Forthcoming:

1989

Thomas J. Watson Fellowship

2005 (finalist)

Michael Kelly award

2009

George Polk Awards

2009

Sigma Delta Chi Award

2009 (shortlist)

Samuel Johnson Prize

2010 (finalist)

National Magazine Awards

2013 [41]

Cullman Fellowship

2017 (finalist)

National Book Award

Official website

at The New Yorker

Articles by David Grann

at The New York Times Magazine

Articles by David Grann

at The New Republic

Articles by David Grann

at The Atlantic

Articles by David Grann

on C-SPAN

Appearances

at IMDb

David Grann