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Biography
Berendt grew up in Syracuse New York where both of his parents were writers. It chronicles interwoven lives in Venice in the aftermath of the fire that destroyed the La Fenice opera house. Berendt has since acknowledged that he fabricated some scenes and changed the sequence of some events.

John Berendt (born December 5 1939) is an American author known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.