ERIK LARSON is the award-winning author of the bestsellers The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz; Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania; In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin; Thunderstruck; The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America; and Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, which collectively have sold more than 12 million copies and have been published in nearly 40 countries. With his latest novel, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Crown), Larson captures the pivotal five months between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and the bombardment of Fort Sumter the following April – a dramatic period that put the United States on a path to self-destruction. A former resident of Seattle, Larson lives in Manhattan with his retired neonatologist/writer wife; they have three grown daughters.
