Gary Krist
New York Times Bestselling Author of The Mirage Factory
Nonfiction Books
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Coming in March of 2025
Trespassers at the Golden Gate
A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness
in Gilded-Age San Francisco
The sensational true story of a woman who murdered her married lover in Gilded Age San Francisco, and the trial that epitomized the city's transformation from raucous frontier town into modern metropolis—from the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Sin
First Pre-Pub Review Is In
A "masterful work of true crime...with meticulous research and a novelist's flair for drama. This top-shelf blend of history and entertainment is as edifying as it is exciting."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
News & Events
Trespassers Book Tour 2025
Tuesday, March 11—New York NY: The Mysterious Bookshop
in conversation with Abbott Kahler
Wednesday, March 12—Washington DC: Politics and Prose
in conversation with Margaret Talbot
Thursday, March 13—Jackson MS: Lemuria Books
Sunday, March 16—Marin County CA: Book Passage Corte Madera
Monday, March 17—San Francisco CA: Commonwealth Club
in conversation with George Hammond
Tuesday, March 18—Sausalito CA: Sausalito Books
Contact
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Notable Reviews
of The Mirage Factory
"[Krist] expertly weaves together the stories of Griffith, Mulholland and McPherson…Krist is a nimble scene-setter, and it’s the indelible details he offers that give The Mirage Factory its mesmerizing pull.…You’ll finish [the book] entertained, informed and satisfied, as well as ready for more."
Jennifer Szalai
THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Krist is a dream-weaver…exquisite pacing and seamless shifting between the characters allow their stories to connect….I’ve read dozens of histories of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and none are as viscerally compelling or as clear in detailed descriptions of the complicated machinations as Krist’s account….Krist’s book is so good that, like the best movies, it ends up inverting the genre."
"[An] elegant and expansive study…Krist illuminates a compelling version of the city’s drawing-board years…The Mirage Factory tunnels to the roots of [L.A.’s] invention narratives, identifying the individual threads, and shows how they began to work in tandem to create a fantastic tapestry.”
Lynell George,
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
Joe Mathews
THE WASHINGTON POST
Bio
GARY KRIST has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Esquire, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He is the bestselling author of the acclaimed narrative nonfiction books The Mirage Factory, Empire of Sin, City of Scoundrels, and The White Cascade.
He has also written five works of fiction. Krist has received the Stephen Crane Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Public Scholar fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Lowell Thomas Gold Medal for Travel Journalism, and other awards.