American · b. 1967
David Grann writes nonfiction that reads like thrillers. Born in 1967, he studied at Connecticut College and held a Fulbright in Mexico before becoming a staff writer at The New Yorker. His books take forgotten history and make it urgent: The Lost City of Z (2009) followed an explorer who vanished in the Amazon; Killers of the Flower Moon (2017) exposed murders of Osage Nation members for oil rights and became a Scorsese film. The Wager (2023) reconstructed a British shipwreck and mutiny. Grann combines deep archival research with narrative drive, finding stories that illuminate how we survive—and betray—each other.