In Atlanta, the first question is ‘What’s your business?’ In Macon, it is ‘Where do you go to church?’ In Augusta they want your grandmother’s maiden name. But in Savannah, the first question is ‘What would you like to drink?’
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| Birth: | 5th December, 1939 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Editor, Journalist |
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John Berendt is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. He earned a BA degree in English from Harvard University in 1961. He was an associate editor of Esquire from 1961 to 1969, editor of New York magazine from 1977 to 1979 and a columnist for Esquire from 1982 to 1994. He has written other books, including The City of Falling Angels, and An Innocent Abroad (with others).
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