John Berendt

John Berendt was born in New York in 1939 and graduated
from Harvard University in 1961. While at Harvard, he was
on the editorial board of the Harvard Lampoon. From
1961 to 1969, he was an associate editor at Esquire
and later wrote for David Frost and Dick Cavett. Berendt
served as editor of New York magazine from 1977 to
1979 and wrote a monthly column for Esquire from
1982 to 1994. Berendt's first book, Midnight in the
Garden of Good and Evil, was published in 1994 to great
acclaim and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.