A Conversation with Author David Grann on 'Killers of the Flower Moon'

By NYPL Staff
June 27, 2017

On April 17, 2017 The New York Public Library hosted a conversation between two writers for The New Yorker, David Grann and Jeffrey Toobin. They discussed Grann's most recent book, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI which he worked on at NYPL as a fellow of The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

Killers of the Flower Moon covers a series of cold-blooded murders that took place among the richest people per capita of the 1920s: the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma, who had become oil millionaires after black gold was discovered under their land. The series of mysterious deaths was one of the earliest cases investigated by the FBI, under a very young J. Edgar Hoover.