
Bestselling Author Caleb Carr, 68, Passes Away
Caleb Carr, the author best known for his 1994 best-selling novel "The Alienist," died at 68 from cancer. His work, driven by his own dark history of childhood abuse, explored the roots of violence through meticulously researched historical fiction. Carr's novel, set in 19th-century Manhattan, used forensic psychiatry to solve murders and featured historical figures like Theodore Roosevelt.

