Williams was finally acquitted, but the main interest of the story for many readers has been the wealth of exquisitely drawn incidental characters from every level of society and the artfully woven anecdotes that create a tapestry of Savannah. The book is constructed loosely around the shooting of male hustler Danny Hansford by internationally known antiques dealer Jim Williams in May 1981 and the subsequent four murder trials that lasted more than eight years. He took an apartment and for eight years lived off and on in the city, interviewing locals and gathering material.
The one point on which both critics and admirers agree is that, after Midnight in the Garden, Savannah’s clock will never be turned back.Īuthor John Berendt was born in 1939 and grew up in Syracuse, New York attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he wrote and edited for the Harvard Lampoon and was an associate editor at Esquire and editor of New York magazine before moving to Savannah in 1985 to research Midnight in the Garden.
Written by John Berendt and published by Random House in January 1994, the nonfiction narrative quickly became known locally as simply “The Book.” Since that time it has sold more than three million copies in 101 printings, has been translated into twenty-three languages and appeared in twenty-four foreign editions, and has brought hundreds of thousands of tourists to Savannah to visit this loveliest of crime scenes. The impact of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil on Savannah has been greater than that of any other book in the city’s history.
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