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The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America / Erik Larson.
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- ISBN: 0609608444 (hardcover) :
- ISBN: 0375725601 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 9780609608449
- Physical Description: xi, 447 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, c2003.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-429) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Evils imminent -- Prologue, aboard the Olympic (1912) -- Frozen music (Chicago, 1890-1891) -- An awful fight -- In the white city -- Cruelty revealed (1894-5) Property of H.H. Holmes -- Epilogue, the last crossing. |
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| Subject: | Mudgett, Herman W., 1861-1896. World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Serial murderers > Illinois > Chicago > Biography. Serial murders > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies. |
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The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson was born in Brooklyn on January 3, 1954. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania and went to graduate school at Columbia University. Larson worked for the Wall Street Journal and then began writing non-fiction books. He is the bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist and Edgar Award-winning, The Devil in the White City, which has been optioned for a feature film by Leonardo DiCaprio. He also wrote In the Garden of the Beasts, Issac's Storm, Thunderstruck and The Naked Consumer. Larson has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State University, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and the University of Oregon. (Bowker Author Biography)
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