Caleb Carr, 68, author of popular thriller The Alienist, died of cancer on May 23 at his home in Cherry Plain, NY. The son of journalist Lucien Carr, he published 11 books, including most recently the memoir My Beloved Monster, which came out in April. Carr’s editor at Little, Brown, Joshua Kendall, said, “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. These were novels that used baroque canvasses to paint intimate scenes of beauty, suffering, intellectual bravery, and pain. Pain was his final […]
