John Berendt 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.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1999
ISBN 9780613193979
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil A Savannah Story
1995
ISBN 9780099576112