Caleb Carr, military historian and author of The Alienist, dies at 68

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

Caleb Carr, the son of the Beat poet Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his cat, Masha, has died at 68.

Carr died of cancer on Thursday, according to an announcement from his publisher, Little, Brown and Company.

“Caleb lived his writing life valiantly, with works of politics, history and sociology, but most astonishingly for this historian, with wildly entertaining works of fiction,” Carr’s editor, Joshua Kendall, said in a statement.

A native of Manhattan, Caleb Carr was born into literary and cultural history. Lucien Carr, along with Columbia University classmates Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, helped found the Beat movement. Kerouac, Ginsberg and such fellow Beats as William Burroughs and Herbert Huncke were frequent visitors to the Carr apartment, where Caleb Carr remembered gatherings that were enriching, bewildering and, at times, terrifying.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/24/caleb-carr-dead-author-alienist

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He was supposed to be working on two additional books in the ALIENIST series.

[FakeNoose]

1. Oh dear, I'm sorry to hear this

I have loved Caleb Carr's books over the years. And the Alienist mini-series has been one of my favorites.

Rest in peace Caleb Carr....

[anciano]

2. Sad news indeed.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. He was an interesting writer. Read a couple of his books, including 'The Alienist'. R.I.P.

[Doc_Technical]

4. I'm not that well read

but I did enjoy The Alienist.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. I enjoyed his nonfictional "The Devil Soldier". His other nonfiction looks potentially very interesting. nt