Erik Larson
Erik Larson
Erik Larsonis an American journalist and author of nonfiction books. He has written a number of bestsellers, such as The Devil in the White City, about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and a series of murders by H. H. Holmes that were committed in the city around the time of the Fair; The Devil in the White City also won the 2004 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category, among other awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 January 1954
CountryUnited States of America
My job is to ... sort of guide them through the negative and positive energies in their life and erase the barriers and increase the strength so they can accomplish their goals.
If you can imagine walking out your back door -- and where you ordinarily see somebody's yard, kids playing and houses and the streets and all that stuff -- what you would most likely have seen is a pile in which your neighbors where at that very moment being incinerated,
Recovery had a lot to do with resolve and enthusiasm and the pace of rebuilding.
Maybe I'm imagining it, but I sense a deep seam of sorrow in Galveston for the way things have turned out. It was such a glittering little city in 1900, with the promise of becoming another San Francisco or New Orleans,
The broader message is that technological hubris will always get you in trouble with nature.
I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.
Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.
Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.
Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.
Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.