Welcome to the Page to Screen edition of the Yadkin County Public Library Podcast, where each month, we’ll be discussing a book that has been turned into a movie or TV series, as well as the reception of each. This month we'll be discussing Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, is a non-fiction novel by John Berendt. The book, Berendt's first, was published in 1994 and follows the story of an antiques dealer on trial for the murder of his employee/lover. Subtitled A Savannah Story, with an initial printing of 25,000 copies,[1] the book became a New York Times Best-Seller for 216 weeks following its debut and remains one of the longest-standing New York Times Best-Sellers. The book won the 1995 Boeke Prize and was one of the finalists for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction.The book was also adapted for Clint Eastwood's 1997 film, with several characters' names changed to protect their privacy.
Read A Likes
1. God'll cut you down by John Safran
2. The kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green
3. Cemetery road by Greg Iles
4. The devil in the white city by Erik Larson
5. The peculiar case of the electric constable by Carol J. Baxter
6. A dark room in glitter ball city by David Domine
7. And the dead shall rise by Steve Oney
8. Practice to deceive by Ann Rule
9. Blood & ink by Joe Pompeo
Links mentioned in the podcast:
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4195
https://www.savannahmagazine.com/25-years-after-midnight/
https://ghostcitytours.com/savannah/haunted-places/haunted-houses/mercer-williams-house/#:~:text=The%20Mercer%2DWilliams%20is%20now,Norris.
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