Erik Larson (born 1954) is an Edgar Award-winning nonfiction author. His works include:
- Lethal Passage (about America's gun culture and the ease of obtaining firearms)
- Isaac's Storm (about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900)
- The Devil in the White City (about the 1893 World's Fair and serial killer H.H. Holmes)
- Thunderstruck (about wireless telegraph inventor Guglielmo Marconi and murderer Hawley Crippen)
- In the Garden of Beasts (about the American ambassador to Nazi Germany, William Dodd)
- Dead Wake (about the last voyage of the Lusitania)
- The Splendid and the Vile (about Winston Churchill's wartime ministry)
