Tucson Festival of Books

Elon Green



Natalie Sparaccio

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. "Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York" was his first book and won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Green was an executive producer on the HBO series adapted from "Last Call." "The Man Nobody Killed" is being released this month.

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Awards: Edgar Award


Scheduled events:
Friends and Sponsors Only: Hot Off the Press
Sponsors and Friends of the Festival are invited to a books launch party with authors in attendance.

Campus Store - Hot Off the Press (Seats 250, Wheelchair accessible)  View this venue on the Festival map
Sat, Mar 14, 8:00 am - 9:00 am

Panelists: David Blumenthal, C.J. Box, Elle Cosimano, Elon Green, Adib Khorram, T Kira Madden, Loubna Mrie, Megan Kate Nelson, Keith O'Brien, Caroline Paul
Murders that Shaped America
These murders changed America--but why? And what's the real story behind them?

Integrated Learning Center Room 120 (Seats 300, Wheelchair accessible)  View this venue on the Festival map
Sat, Mar 14, 11:30 am - 12:25 pm
True Crime
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)  View this venue on the Festival map

Panelists: Eli Frankel, Elon Green, Harold Schechter
Moderator: Rick Unklesbay
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of Hudson Group, Marshall Foundation
Homegrown Hate Crimes
Unfettered prejudice turns to murder in these tragic true crimes. Pulitzer Prize winner Eric Lichtblau and Edgar Award winner Elon Green discuss how prejudice escalates into violence, revealing chilling true stories of hate-fueled crimes in America.

Integrated Learning Center Room 130 (Seats 143, Wheelchair accessible)  View this venue on the Festival map
Sun, Mar 15, 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm
True Crime
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)  View this venue on the Festival map

Panelists: Elon Green, Eric Lichtblau
Moderator: Stephen Golden
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of Sara Cohen, The Neymeyer Family

Books:
The Man Nobody Killed
Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
True Crime
Celadon Books
March 2026
ISBN 9781250898241
304 pages
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Last Call
A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
True Crime
Celadon Books
June 2022
ISBN 9781250833020
288 pages
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