![]() ![]() His first book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which Berendt has called "a nonfiction novel," could be classified as a true crime story, or a travelogue, but it's also an absorbing collection of crazy people, cranks, eccentrics and oddballs, whose lives Berendt chronicles with as much detail as he devotes to murder suspect Jim Williams, ostensibly his main character.Īs readers and critics have noted, the true "main character" of Midnight in the Garden is the city of Savannah, Ga., which enjoyed a tremendous boost in tourism as a result of what Savannahians now refer to simply as "the book."īerendt started visiting Savannah in the early 1980s, flying in from New York, where he worked as a writer at Esquire. They do indeed, if Berendt is writing about them. "I like crazy people," John Berendt once told an interviewer for The Independent. ![]() ![]() Awards-Southern Book Award for General Nonfiction, 1994 įinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, 1995. ![]()
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