IN THEIR WORDS
DAVID GRANN looks for narratives in scraps of stories he hears or reads; they provide the beginning of a yarn he pulls at, doggedly, in search of a tale worth telling. The thread he follows in his latest book began with a series of murders of Osage Indians in Oklahoma in the 1920s; it became The Killers of the Flower Moon, the story of a murder investigation, overseen by a 29-year-old J. Edgar Hoover, that would solidify the formation of the modern FBI.
NOT FICTION: Grann has uncovered evidence of a “culture of killing” in 1920s Oklahoma.
MATT RICHMAN; DOUBLEDAY