Caleb Carr, whose bestselling 1994 novel The Alienist ... published in 2016), several non-fiction books and a 2024 memoir titled My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued ...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- It's 2 p.m. on a gusty afternoon in Manhattan and Caleb Carr looks like hell ... "The point of the 'Alienist' books is that they're not about the past. I set them at the turn ...