A Conversation with Bestselling Author David Grann at Athena Books

228 Sound Beach Avenue,Greenwich CT 06870

22 April, 2023

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Athena Books is thrilled to welcome award-winning and bestselling author David Grann to discuss his newest book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder, a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. As with his earlier bestseller, Killers of the Flower Moon, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorcese have announced that they are teaming up to adapt The Wager into a major motion picture. Please join us for conversation, wine and light bites as we toast David's newest work! About the Author: David Grann is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. His newest book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder, will be published on April 18, 2023. With the twists and turns of a thriller, it tells the true story of a company of British naval officers and crew that became stranded on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia and descended into murderous anarchy. The book explores the nature of survival, duty, and leadership, and examines how both people and nations tell—and manipulate—history. Grann is also the author of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, which documented one of the most sinister crimes and racial injustices in American history. Described in the New York Times as a “riveting” work that will “sear your soul,” it was a finalist for the National Book Award and a winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Award for best true crime book. It was a #1 New York Times bestseller and named one of the best books of the year by the Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Time, and other publications. The book has been adapted into a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro, and Jesse Plemons, which will be released in the coming months. For middle schoolers, Grann has also released Killers of the Flower Moon: A Young Reader’s Edition, which the School Library Journal called as “imperative and enthralling as its parent text.” Grann’s first book, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, it was chosen as one of the best books of 2009 by the New York Times, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and other publications. The book, which the Washington Post called a “thrill ride from start to finish,” was adapted into a critically acclaimed film directed by James Gray and starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, and Tom Holland. David lives with his wife and children in New York.