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David Grann is the staff writer at The New Yorker and an acclaimed author. His stories have appeared in several anthologies and he's written for a raft of other magazines including the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Washington Post among others. His books include The Lost City of Z: A tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon, and Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage murders and the birth of the FBI. His latest book is called The White Darkness, and tells the story of decorated British special forces officer Henry Worsley, who spent his life idolising Ernest Shackleton and, at the age of 55, set off to walk across Antarctica alone.
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