![]() ![]() My goal is to create as rich a historical experience as I possibly can. ![]() Larson: As paradoxical as it may sound, it’s not my intent with my books to inform in the way that perhaps a hardcore historian might be inclined to do. Can you describe what you feel like you’re doing with your body of work? You make nonfiction engaging in ways that I haven’t seen before. My dad and my buddy read it, which is really fun. Believe me.Įllison: I could not be more in love with your book. So happy to have you on A Word On Words today. Erik’s In the Garden of Beasts, about how America’s first ambassador to Nazi Germany and his daughter experienced the rising terror of Hitler’s rule, has been optioned by Tom Hanks for development as a feature film.Įrik Larson: The first thing I’d like say to J.T., thank you for doing this. Hulu plans to adapt the book for a limited TV series, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese as executive producers. His saga of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, The Devil in the White City, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing it lingered on various Times bestseller lists for the better part of a decade. ![]() We’re joined today on Nashville Public Television’s A WORD ON WORDS by the indomitable Erik Larson to discuss his latest book, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz. ![]()
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