David Grann

Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright.

Gregg Olsen is an American author best known for his works in the true crime and thriller genres.

Griffin Dunne (born June 8, 1955) is an actor, producer, director, and writer, best known for his role in Martin Scorsese's *After Hours*. He is the son of Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne and heiress Ellen "Lenny" Griffin, and the nephew of writer John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. He published his family memoir, *The Friday Afternoon Club*, in 2024.

Daniel Barenblatt is the author of *A Plague Upon Humanity: The Secret Genocide of Axis Japan's Germ Warfare Operation*, a meticulously documented work on Japan's biological warfare program. He drew upon startling new evidence, including firsthand accounts from both perpetrators and survivors, to write the book.

Mariah Fredericks is the author of the Jane Prescott mystery series, set in 1910s New York.

Born in Edinburgh in 1859, **Sir Arthur Conan Doyle** was a British writer and physician.