John Berendt

John Berendt (born December 5, 1939) is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, and The City of Falling Angels, which tells the story of interesting inhabitants of Venice, Italy, whom Berendt met while living there in the months following a fire which destroyed the historic La Fenice opera house in 1996.

)[6] Berendt's initial plan was to spend three weeks at a time in Savannah, then return to New York City to write, but he changed his mind.

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.

Dolly Parton's Dollywood Foundation, through its Imagination Library, distributed hundreds of thousands of copies for free to children across the U.S.

[13] In 1996 Jack Wrangler wrote and co-produced, with George Wein, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: The Jazz Concert, starring Margaret Whiting based on the songs of Savannah native Johnny Mercer.