Sessions
Multi-Author Keynote Breakfast / Mackinac (5th floor)
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Fri
Erik Larson is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, which examines how Winston Churchill and his “Secret Circle” went about surviving the German air campaign of 1940-41. Larson’s The Devil in the White City is in development at Disney Studios; his In the Garden of Beasts is in development with StudioCanal and PlayTone. He recently published an audio-original ghost story, No One Goes Alone, which is in development with Chernin Entertainment. His Thunderstruck is in development with Sony TV, with Freddie Highmore and Sydney Sweeney attached to star. Larson lives in Manhattan with his wife, who is a writer and retired neonatologist; they have three grown daughters.