Tucson Festival of Books

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.


Panelists
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. "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....

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Eric Lichtblau

Eric Lichtblau is a journalist and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He served in the Washington bureau of The New York Times for 15 years, and reported for the Los Angeles Times for 15 years before that....

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Books:
The Man Nobody Killed
Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
Elon Green
True Crime
Celadon Books
March 2026
ISBN 9781250898241
304 pages
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American Reich
A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate
Eric Lichtblau
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Little Brown
January 2026
ISBN 9780316564717
352 pages
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