David Grann

Journalist

David Grann was born in New York City, New York, United States on March 10th, 1967 and is the Journalist. At the age of 57, David Grann biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
March 10, 1967
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, United States
Age
57 years old
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
Profession
Journalist, Writer
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Education
Connecticut College, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Boston University
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Spouse(s)
Kyra Darnton ​(m. 2000)​
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2
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David Grann Career

Career

Grann graduated from Connecticut College in 1989 with a B.A. in Government. He received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and conducted research in Mexico, where he began his career as a freelance journalist. He received a master's degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1993. At that point primarily interested in fiction, Grann hoped to develop a career as a novelist.

His journalism career began after he was hired in 1994 as a copy editor at The Hill, a Washington, D.C.-based newspaper covering the United States Congress. The same year, he earned a master's degree in creative writing from Boston University, where he taught courses in creative writing and fiction. He was named The Hill's executive editor in 1995.

In 1996, Grann became a senior editor at The New Republic. He joined The New Yorker in 2003 as a staff writer. He was a finalist for the Michael Kelly Award in 2005.

In 2009, he received both the George Polk Award and Sigma Delta Chi Award for his New Yorker piece "Trial By Fire", about Cameron Todd Willingham. Another New Yorker investigative article, "The Mark of a Masterpiece", raised questions about the methods of Peter Paul Biro who claimed to use fingerprints to help authenticate lost masterpieces. Biro sued Grann and The New Yorker for libel, but the case was summarily dismissed. The article was a finalist for the 2010 National Magazine Award.

Grann's 2009 non-fiction book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon recounts the odyssey of the notable British explorer, Captain Percy Fawcett who, in 1925, disappeared with his son in the Amazon while looking for the Lost City of Z. For decades, explorers and scientists have tried to find evidence of both his party and the Lost City of Z. Grann also trekked into the Amazon. In his book, he reveals new evidence about how Fawcett died and shows that "Z" may have existed.

The book was optioned by Brad Pitt's Plan B production company and Paramount Pictures. It was adapted into a feature film of the same name and released in the US in 2017.

An anthology of twelve previously published Grann essays, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, was published in March 2010.

In March 2014, Grann said he was working on a new book about the Osage Indian murders, considered "one of the most sinister crimes in American history." His book Killers of the Flower Moon: An American Crime and the Birth of the FBI was published in 2017, chronicling "a tale of murder, betrayal, heroism and a nation's struggle to leave its frontier culture behind and enter the modern world." It was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. The book was acquired for film adaptation by Martin Scorsese in 2017, and the film will be released theatrically by Paramount Pictures and stream on Apple TV+ in 2023.

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon was the first novel by Grann to be adapted in a film. Released in 2017, it was directed by James Gray and starred Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, and Tom Holland.

The Old Man & the Gun was Grann's second film adaptation, released in 2018. Written and directed by David Lowery, the film stars Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover, Tika Sumpter, Tom Waits and Sissy Spacek. The script is loosely based on Grann's 2003 article in The New Yorker, which was later collected in his 2010 book The Devil and Sherlock Holmes.

The film adaptation of Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon is currently slated for a 2023 theatrical release. It is directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, and Lily Gladstone. It will be released by Paramount Pictures and stream on Apple TV+.

Apple TV+ announced in April 2022 that Grann's The White Darkness would be developed into a new limited series starring Tom Hiddleston. The series will be developed by Soo Hugh and co-produced by Apple Studios and UCP.

In July 2022, Scorsese and DiCaprio also acquired the rights to Grann's upcoming non-fiction book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder.

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David Grann Awards

Awards

  • Thomas J. Watson Fellowship (1989)
  • Michael Kelly award, finalist (2005)
  • George Polk Awards (2009)
  • Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlist (2009)
  • National Magazine Awards, finalist (2010)
  • National Book Award, finalist (2017)

At the Killers of the Flower Moon Festival, Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone turns heads in a fitted black turtleneck and decorative skirt

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 27, 2024
On Friday, Lily Gladstone led arrivals at a Killers of the Flower Moon celebration in Washington, D.C. In a form-fitting black turtleneck and a pleated black skirt, the 37-year-nominated actress looked stunning. The skirt, which cropped at her calves, featured a large colorful embroidered emblem across the front.

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www.dailymail.co.uk, January 24, 2024
Our analysts examine the movies expected to make waves at the Academy Awards, from jaw-dropping Oppenheimer to epic Napoleon and Saltburn's exuberant satire on class.

'Being Native, watching this film was f***ing hellfire,' Devery Jacobs screams at Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 24, 2023
Devery Jacobs, a producer for Reservation Dogs, blasted the film on social media just days after director Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon landed in theaters. On Monday, the 30-year-old actress, who hails from Canada's Mohawk Indian tribe, took to Twitter to share her thoughts and'strong feelings' about the film. The film is based on journalist/author David Grann's book that chronicles a string of murders on the Osage Nation reservation in Oklahoma in the 1920s.
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