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Berendt grew up in Syracuse, New York , where both of his parents were writers. As an English major at Harvard University , he worked on the staff of the Harvard Lampoon . He graduated in 1961 and moved to New York City to pursue a journalism career. Berendt was editor of New York Magazine from 1977 to 1979 and a columnist for Esquire from 1982 to 1994 . When he penned ''Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'' in 1994 , Berendt became an overnight success. Chronicling the real-life events surrounding a Murder trial in Savannah, Georgia , the book spent 216 weeks on the '' New York Times '' Bestseller list. A movie version directed by Clint Eastwood appeared in 1997 to mixed reviews. Berendt's most recent book, '', 2005 ), "Berendt does great justice to an exalted city that has rightly fascinated the likes of Henry James , Robert Browning and many filmmakers throughout the world." |
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