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  Gary Michael Krist (born 1957) is an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, travel journalism, and literary criticism.Before turning to narrative nonfiction with "The White Cascade" (2007), a book about the 1910 Wellington avalanche, "City of Scoundrels" (2012), about Chicago's tragic summer of 1919, and "Empire of Sin" (2014), about the reform wars in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, Krist wrote three novels--"Bad Chemistry" (1998), "Chaos Theory" (2000), and "Extravagance" (2002).