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Caleb Carr Dies: Author Of Bestselling ‘The Alienist’ Was 68
Caleb Carr, whose bestselling 1994 novel The Alienist made the author a household name and was adapted into a 10-episode limited series on TNT, died of cancer Thursday at his home in Cherry Plains, New York. He was 68. His death was announced by his brother Ethan Carr to The New York Times. Carr was […]
Caleb Carr, whose bestselling 1994 novel The Alienist made the author a household name and was adapted into a 10-episode limited series on TNT, died of cancer Thursday at his home in Cherry Plains, New York. The fatal stabbing, which made headlines and history not least because Lucien’s friend and Columbia University classmate Jack Kerouac helped dispose of the knife, was depicted in the 2013 film Kill Your Darlings starring Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan. The wildly acclaimed and popular novel was set in 19th Century New York City, and focused on the attempts of a child psychiatrist, or “alienist” in the vocabulary of the day, to solve a series of murders of boy prostitutes.
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