Erik Larson’s new book In the Garden of Beasts is a New York Times best seller. Larson grew up on North Grove Street and graduated Freeport High School in 1972. He earne
d his B.A. in Russian history and culture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. Two years later, Larson graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in with an M.S. He has been a feature writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time magazine. He also has written articles for Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker. He taught nonfiction writing at San Francisco State, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Oregon. He currently lives with his family in Seattle. Larson’s latest nonfiction book, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, tells the story of William E. Dodd who became U.S. ambassador to Germany in 1933.Larson’s previous books include: The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities, 1992; Lethal Passage: How the Travels of a Single Handgun Expose the Roots of America's Gun Crisis, 1994; Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, 1999; The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and the Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Crown , 2003; and Thunderstruck, 2006.
