David Grann writes about Henry Worsley’s solitary trek, which became a singular test of character.
David Grann
David Grann, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2003, is the author of, most recently, “ The Wager,” and of “ Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I.,” which won an Edgar Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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A story of love, revolution, and betrayal.
Unravelling the ultimate political conspiracy.
David Grann on Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted, on scant scientific evidence, of a deadly case of arson, but who may have been innocent.
David Grann reports on a quest to uncover a lost civilization deep in the Amazonian rain forest described as “the last great blank space in the world.”
Was the death of Richard Lancelyn Green, the world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes expert, an elaborate suicide or a murder? David Grann reports, from 2004.
David Grann on efforts by the marine biologist Steve O’Shea to capture the animal, which has fascinated sailors and oceanographers and been written about by Jules Verne and Peter Benchley.
David Grann on Forrest Tucker, a career stickup man who robbed a bank at age seventy-eight.