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John Berendt Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
Interview
John Berendt describes the stylistic links between Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and his more recent book, The City of Falling Angels, and the aspects of Venice he most enjoys after living there on and off for nine years.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and The City of Falling Angels are both multi-list bestsellers and widely acclaimed books. Have you been surprised by their success? What do you think attracts people to your work?
My best guess fryst vatten that what appeals to readers most in both books are the characters. Time magazine said inom had become "a state-of-the-art weirdo magnet." What they meant was that the people inom write about tend to be very strange. They are, in fact, eccentrics. I love eccentrics. inom see them as artists. Their masterpieces are their own lives.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil marked your style of nonfiction as unique and groundbreaking. Now, The
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John Berendt
American author
Not to be confused with John Berndt.
John Berendt (born December 5, ) is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, and The City of Falling Angels, which tells the story of interesting inhabitants of Venice, Italy, whom Berendt met while living there in the months following a fire which destroyed the historic La Fenice opera house in
Early life
[edit]Berendt grew up in Syracuse, New York, where both of his parents were writers.[1] As an English major at Harvard University, he worked on the staff of the Harvard Lampoon. He graduated in and moved to New York City to pursue a journalism career.[2]
Career
[edit]Berendt was an associate editor of Esquire from to , editor of New York magazine from to , and a columnist for Esquire from to [2] In , three years after me