An account of life in Savannah, Georgia, as observed by Berendt in the 1980s, the book provides portraits of Savannah's more colorful citizens, notably the transvestite performer Lady Chablis and various members of the storytelling Married Woman's Card Club. SIDELIGHTS: John Berendt has been a journalist and an editor at the well-known Esquire and New York magazines, but he is probably best known as the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story. The City of Falling Angels, Penguin Press (New York, NY), 2005.ĪDAPTATIONS: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was adapted for film, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring John Cusack and Kevin Spacey, and released by Warner Bros., 1997. (Author of introduction) Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Modern Library (New York, NY), 2004.
(Author of introduction) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Modern Library (New York, NY), 2001. Deen, The Lady and Sons: Savannah Country Cookbook, Random House (New York, NY), 1998. (Author of introduction) Lady Chablis and Theodore Bouloukos, Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1997. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story (nonfiction), Random House (New York, NY), 1994. Esquire, New York, NY, associate editor, 1961–69 Holiday, New York, senior staff editor, 1969 worked in New York as associate producer for the David Frost Show, 1969–71, and for the Dick Cavett Show, 1973–75 New York Magazine, New York, editor, 1977–79 Esquire, columnist, 1982–94.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Southern Book Award, 1994, and Pulitzer Prize finalist for general nonfiction, 1995, both for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story.
57th St., New York, NY 10019.ĬAREER: Writer, editor, and producer.
Agent-International Creative Management (ICM), 40 W. Education: Harvard University, A.B., 1961.ĪDDRESSES: Home- New York, NY. PERSONAL: Born December 5, 1939, in Syracuse, NY son of Ralph Sidney and Carol (Deschere) Berendt.
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