Evening With the Author - David Grann

Evening with the Author: David Grann

Spend an intimate evening with author David Grann. 

Doors will open to ticket holders at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday, February 11, 2025. The event will start at 7 p.m. with a champagne reception to follow featuring light hors d’oeuvres and a book signing opportunity. 

You must present a physical ticket to Library staff to enter the event. 

How to Obtain Tickets:

The Sanibel Public Library will continue to utilize a “lottery system” ticketing procedure to meet high demand and to ensure as many as possible have the opportunity to attend an Author Series event. Tickets are distributed at no charge to Sanibel Public Library cardholders; one card per person; up to two tickets per card.

Registration for a chance to obtain David Grann's Author Series Evening tickets open on Friday, January 3, 2025 at 9 a.m. and close on Friday, January 10, 2025 at 5 p.m. *Requests made before or after the date range listed above cannot be honored.*

Names of those requesting tickets will be placed in a lottery and selected at random. If you are selected to receive tickets you will be notified by email. Tickets must be picked up by Tuesday, February 4, 2025. *Tickets not picked up by Library closure on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 will automatically be redistributed to individuals on the waiting list.*

If you would like assistance using the online registration form or are unable to access it, please call the Sanibel Public Library at (239) 472- 2483.

About the Author:

David Grann has written seven novels and is a #1 New York Timesbestselling author and an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Grann’s first book, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, was #1 New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a critically acclaimed film directed by James Gray and starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, and Tom Holland. Grann is also the author of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, which documented one of the most sinister crimes and racial injustices in American history. The book has been adapted into a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro, and Jesse Plemons. For middle schoolers, Grann has also released Killers of the Flower Moon: A Young Reader’s Edition, which the School Library Journal called as “imperative and enthralling as its parent text.” One of Grann’s New Yorker stories, The White Darkness, was later expanded into a book. Mixing text and photography, it documented the modern explorer Henry Worsley’s quest to follow in the footsteps of his hero, Ernest Shackleton, and traverse Antarctica alone. The story is currently being adapted into a series for Apple starring Tom Hiddleston. His newest book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder, was published in April of 2023. Over the years, Grann’s stories have appeared in The Best American Crime Writing; The Best American Sports Writing; and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. His stories have also been published in the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Wall Street Journal. Grann holds master’s degrees in international relations (from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy) and creative writing (from Boston University). After graduating from Connecticut College, in 1989, he received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and did research in Mexico, where he began his career in journalism. He currently lives in New York with his wife and two children.

About the Author Series:

For more than a decade, the Library, partnering with the Sanibel Public Library Foundation, has connected local readers to award-winning authors by bringing in high caliber writers for an intimate evening, followed by a champagne reception. Past guests include Joyce Carol Oates, Sue Monk Kidd, Jodi Picoult, David Baldacci, Dennis Lehane, Amor Towles, Erik Larson, Margaret Atwood and many more. Funding for the Author Series is provided by the Sanibel Public Library Foundation and its generous donors. 

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Related Programing - Book Club Discussion:

On Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 2 p.m. readers are invited to discuss "The Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann:

n the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And this was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.

As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

The Book Club Discussion is lead by Library staff.

Grann's book is offered in a variety of formats:

Click here to place a hold or to borrow Killers of the Flower Moon

Click here to place a hold or borrow Killers of the Flower Moon on the Libby app

Click here to borrow other David Grann books with no waiting on the hoopla digital app