Author

John Berendt

4 books, mostly biography, for Random House Audio, 2005–2026

John Berendt is an American author and journalist whose writing career began at Esquire, where he worked as an editor and columnist, and later included serving as editor of New York magazine. He is best known for the bestselling nonfiction works Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a literary true-crime portrait of Savannah, and The City of Falling Angels, about Venice after the La Fenice opera-house fire. His work is noted for blending meticulous reporting, atmospheric settings, and novelistic storytelling.