Moore had won applaud for his inspiring speech on the stage where he recounted his struggles as a teen, revealing that he had attempted suicide. "Stay weird. Stay different, and then when it's your turn, and you are standing on this stage, please pass the same message along," he had said.
'The Last Days of Wonder' is about the early days of electricity, and the legal battle - a billion-dollar lawsuit brought by Thomas Edison against George Westinghouse - over the invention of the lightbulb.
Moore's debut novel 'The Sherlockian' was released in 2010, and made the New York Times best-seller list. He recently adapted Erik Larson's 'The Devil in the White City' for Warner Bros.
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