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Elon Green

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Elon Green

Elon Green has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and appears in UNSPEAKABLE ACTS, Sarah Weinman’s anthology of true crime. His first book, LAST CALL: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York, won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Green was an executive producer on the HBO series adapted from LAST CALL.

Elon Green

Books by Elon Green

by Elon Green - Nonfiction, True Crime

At 25 years old, Michael Stewart was a young Black aspiring artist, deejay and model, looking to make a name for himself in the vibrant downtown art scene of the early 1980s New York City. On September 15, 1983, he was brutally beaten by New York City Transit Authority police for allegedly tagging a 14th Street subway station wall. Witnesses reported officers beating him with billy clubs and choking him with a nightstick. Stewart arrived at Bellevue Hospital hog-tied with no heartbeat and died after 13 days in a coma. This was, at that point, the most widely noticed act of police brutality in the city's history. THE MAN NOBODY KILLED recounts the cultural impact of Michael Stewart’s life and death.

by Elon Green - Nonfiction, True Crime

The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, and a man standing nearby is drinking a Scotch and water. The man strikes the piano player as forgettable. He looks bland and inconspicuous. Not at all what you think a serial killer looks like. But that’s what he is, and tonight he has his sights set on a gray-haired man. He will not be his first victim. Nor will he be his last. The Last Call Killer preyed upon gay men in New York in the ’80s and ’90s. Yet because of the sexuality of his victims, the sky-high murder rates and the AIDS epidemic, his murders have been almost entirely forgotten. LAST CALL tells the story of the Last Call Killer and the decades-long chase to find him.