The Alienist
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The Alienist is a crime novel by Caleb Carr first published in 1994 and is the first book in the Kreizler series. It takes place in New York City in 1896, and includes appearances by many famous figur
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Ambulance standing outside Bellevue, a psychiatric hospital, in New York City in 1895
Lucien Carr
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Lucien Carr was an American journalist and editor who was a key member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation, and in the 1940s was convicted for manslaughter. He later worked for
The Alienist
…I'm the only kid in my family who never tried to kill himself...I kind of figured somebody else was going to kill me anyway." Carr's natural father, Lucien Carr, was a writer, who in the 1940s was at the center of a group of as-yet unknown writers (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs). In the…
Carr in 1944