Berendt

John Berendt is a New Yorker, but he captures the characters of the south so well, I'll overlook his northern birth.

4 days and counting... ____Maggie 2007

Berendt is best known for his Pulitzer winning Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil his 1994 book (non-fiction but with some invented scenes!) about a murder in Savannah, Georgia.

Archive 2005-10-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

Berendt is best known for his Pulitzer winning Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil his 1994 book (non-fiction but with some invented scenes!) about a murder in Savannah, Georgia.

Fallen City Sharon Bakar 2005

What role do the dead play in Berendt's narrative?

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt: Questions 1994

Browse an author interview and biography of John Berendt.

A Conversation with John Berendt 2010

Part of the appeal, Berendt says, lay in the city's penchant for morbid gossip:

John Berendt biography 2007

Berendt has written for David Frost and Dick Cavett, was editor of New York magazine from 1977 to 1979, and wrote a monthly column for Esquire from 1982 to

John Berendt biography 2007

John Berendt biography, plus links to book reviews and excerpts.

John Berendt biography 2007

Oh, and for those who can't figure out why I used Pope Leo X, here's a hint: Paul Berendt said that God put Christine Gregoire in office; Pope Leo X said that God had put him in office.

Sound Politics: More And More, Governor Gregoire Reminds Me Of Pope Leo X 2007

Paul Berendt told us in December, 2004 that God had made Gregoire governor, and I have never heard Gregoire herself deny that claim.

Sound Politics: More And More, Governor Gregoire Reminds Me Of Pope Leo X 2007