![]() He followed that up with another bestseller, The City of Falling Angels, which used Venice in the same way Midnight used Savannah. The book proved to be a runway hit, spending more than four years in the New York Times bestseller list (a record), selling over 2.5 million copies (the initial print run was just 25,000), and becoming a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1994, he published Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a "non-fiction novel" about the case and the four trials that resulted (it was edited by Ann Godoff). In the '80s, Berendt began visiting Savannah, Georgia, where he became fascinated by the murder of a local gay hustler by a prominent art dealer. For the next two decades, he worked as a TV writer for David Frost and Dick Cavett and then spent three years in the late '70s as editor-in-chief of New York when it was owned by Rupert Murdoch. Backstoryīerendt's work for the Harvard Lampoon caught the eye of an editor at Esquire, who recruited the young Syracuse native to write for the magazine in 1961. ![]() ![]() Whoīerendt is the author of the mega-hit true crime tale Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and a follow-up about Venice, The City of Falling Angels. ![]() This image was lost some time after publication. ![]()
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