Erik Larson (born January 3, 1954) is an American journalist and author of mostly historical nonfiction books.

His books include Isaac's Storm (1999), The Devil in the White City (2003),[1] In the Garden of Beasts (2011), and Dead Wake (2015).

[4] Larson's first newspaper job was with the Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown, Pennsylvania, where he wrote about murder, witches, environmental poisons, and other "equally pleasant" things.

[4] Larson's 2006 book, Thunderstruck, intersperses the story of Hawley Harvey Crippen with that of Guglielmo Marconi and the invention of radio.

[citation needed] Larson has lived in Philadelphia; Bristol, Pennsylvania; San Francisco; and Baltimore.