![]() ![]() It’s almost like he thinks like a film-maker when he’s looking for stories.”įor Grann, structure is a quest in itself. I feel like more than anybody else at the magazine, his pieces are made to order for Hollywood, because they have such sturdy structures and dramatic twists built in. “He marshals all this information into these really compelling narratives that just won’t let you go. “He’s a natural storyteller, with such a beautiful sense of literary structure,” says Grann’s friend and New Yorker colleague Burkhard Bilger. ![]() ![]() Three of Grann’s stories have been filmed and released over the past six years, with three more adaptations on the way – most notably Martin Scorsese’s take on Grann’s 2017 masterpiece Killers of the Flower Moon, is which is coming to UK cinemas in October. Now they’re hot property in Hollywood, too. His books have proved enormously popular with readers, from 2009’s The Lost City of Z to his latest, The Wager, which topped the New York Times bestseller list earlier this month. Grann, 56, is the workhorse author of five books and a sheaf of deeply researched articles for the New Yorker, where he’s been a staff writer since 2003. ![]()
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