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He took the cover of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the picture of the Bird Girl statue. He earned a B.A. in English from Harvard University, where he worked on the staff of The Harvard Lampoon. I guess live oak, because it immediately sets the character of a city.
Favorite Southern city besides Savannah?
Tie between New Orleans and Charleston.
Favorite small town in the South?
Bluffton, South Carolina.
I can’t remember his name right now, can I get back to you?
Hear more from John Berendt—and hopefully more about that mysterious bonus character—when he takes part in our G&G Reads book club event in Charleston. You have to understand that for the movie, they had to change a lot. I don’t have any regrets about anything, otherwise I’d be tortured!
She was quite a discovery. The book was adapted into a 1997 film directed by Clint Eastwood. The book hit the bestseller list and it snowballed. All products are independently selected by the G&G editorial team.
CJ Lotz Diego is Garden & Gun’s senior editor. I wrote it as entertainment.
They cared that I’d been part of a movie by Clint Eastwood.
His success in blending meticulous research with engaging prose has earned him both critical acclaim and commercial success.
Berendt was born on December 5, 1939, in Syracuse, New York, the son of two writers. According to Kirkus Reviews, "Berendt does great justice to an exalted city that has rightly fascinated the likes of Henry James, Robert Browning, and many filmmakers throughout the world."
In 2011, a blue jay creating a nest outside the window of Berendt's New York City townhouse inspired him to photograph, almost daily, the building of the nest and, ultimately, eggs hatching, chicks emerging, learning to fly and leaving the nest.
Berendt's first book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, was published in 1994 to great acclaim and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Series
Books:
Baby Blues In The Big City, June 2011Hardcover
The City of Falling Angels, October 2006
Paperback (reprint)
The City of Falling Angels, September 2005
Hardcover
Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, July 1999
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Thirty Years of Savannah’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A little more than three decades ago, a Savannahian pulled the journalist John Berendt aside and told him, “As far as Savannah is concerned, being a writer and being from New York is a deadly combination.”
“I understand,” he told her.
24] in one of New York's trendier restaurants. And Pat Conroy—we were friends.
If someone is reading the book for the first time, what should they keep in mind?
Just enjoy yourself. I just hope they keep the Oglethorpe Plan intact. He grew up with a fascination for storytelling and an innate curiosity about the world around him.
There’s a Bird Girl statue in the window. 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 1994.
Berendt first traveled to Savannah in the early 1980s, when he realized that he could fly there for a three-day weekend for the price of "a paillard of veal served on a bed of wilted radicchio" [p.
Any by Jack Leigh, the famous Savannah photographer?
I knew Jack, he was a very good photographer. She was being secretive and fun.