The Glenbard Parent Series has selected the critically acclaimed novel, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI as it’s 2019 ONE BOOK GPS Community Read. Please join us when we will welcome best-selling author David Grann.
At the end of the nineteenth century the Osage Indians were driven onto presumed-worthless land — but their Oklahoma reservation turned out to be atop one of the largest US oil deposits, turning members of the Osage Nation into some of the wealthiest people in the world. And ultimately, marking them for death! Exposing the turbulent history of the relations between whites and the Osage Nation over the course of more than a century, this book provides a look at the deep-seated prejudices that continue to cast a shadow over our country, and how, ultimately, a team from the fledgling FBI, led by old-style Texas lawman Tom White, solved a shocking murder case directed at members of the Osage Nation. The book is currently being turned into a feature film with director Martin Scorsese and staring Leonardo DiCaprio
David Grann is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Before joining The New Yorker in 2003, Grann was a senior editor at The New Republic, and, from 1995 until 1996, the executive editor of the newspaper The Hill. He holds master’s degrees in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy as well as in creative writing from Boston University. After graduating from Connecticut College in 1989, he received a Thomas Watson Fellowship and did research in Mexico, where he began his career in journalism.
Additional support of this program comes from One Community.
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