


Best-selling Novelist
Amor Towles
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Born and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. His thesis at Stanford, a short story cycle called “The Temptations of Pleasure”, was published in 1989 in Paris Review No. 112.
Mr. Towles’s first novel, Rules of Civility, which was published in 2011, was a New York Times bestseller and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. The book has been translated into over 15 languages, its French translation receiving the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald. In the fall of 2012, the novel was optioned by Lionsgate to be made into a feature film.
Mr. Towles’s second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, which was published in 2016, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 52 weeks in hardcover and was named one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Chronicle, and NPR. The book is being translated into over twenty languages including Russian. In the summer of 2017, the novel was optioned by Entertainment One and the British director, Tom Harper, to be made into a 6-8 hour miniseries starring Kenneth Branagh. He is also the author of the ebook You Have Arrived at Your Destination, part of Amazon's Forward collection. His next novel will be The Lincoln Highway (Viking, October 5, 2021).
Having worked as an investment professional for over twenty years, Mr. Towles now devotes himself full time to writing in Manhattan, where he lives with his wife and two children.
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Entertainment Weekly: Amor Towles is releasing a new novel (2021)
KUCI Writers on Writing: Amor Towles (2020)
Boston Globe: Amor Towles’s book group sets a very high bar (2017)
Beaks & Geeks: #143: Amor Towles (2017)
Guardian: Love, New York and all that jazz (2016)
NPR Morning Edition: Idea For 'Gentleman In Moscow' Came From Many Nights In Luxury Hotels (2016)
Good Books Radio: A Gentleman In Moscow - Interview with Amor Towles (2016)
New York Times: A Count Becomes a Waiter in a Novel of Soviet Supremacy (2016)
Los Angeles Times: Amor Towles: A gentleman in New York (2016)
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