Erik Larson | Dead Wake: The Last Crossing Of The Lusitania

Cost: $15 General Admission, $7 Students Heralded for his “engrossing” and “utterly fascinating” (Chicago Tribune) narrative-driven nonfiction, Erik Larson is the bestselling author of In the Garden of Beasts, the story of the first American ambassador to Nazi Germany; and The Devil in the White City, a history of the serial killer who stalked attendees of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. He has also written books about gun violence in America, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, and the loss of privacy in the digital age. A former features writer for The Wall Street Journal, Larson is currently a contributing writer for Time magazine. Dead Wake tells the tale of how the 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania placed America on the path to war. Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture