David Grann
March 30–31, 2026
Bio
David Grann is a #1 New York Times
bestselling author and an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker
magazine. Grann is the author of many books, including Killers of the
Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Described in the New York Times as a “riveting” work that will
“sear your soul,” it was a finalist for the National Book Award and a winner of the Edgar
Allen Poe Award for best true crime book. It was a #1 New York
Times bestseller and named one of the best books of the year by the
Times, Wall Street Journal,
Washington Post, Los Angeles Times,
Entertainment Weekly, Time, and
other publications. For middle schoolers, Grann has also released Killers
of the Flower Moon: A Young Reader’s Edition, which the School
Library Journal called as “imperative and enthralling as its parent text.” Grann
holds master’s degrees in international relations (from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy) and creative writing (from Boston University). After graduating from
Connecticut College, in 1989, he received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and did
research in Mexico, where he began his career in journalism. He currently lives in
New York with his wife and two children.