Amor Towles
Autor de A Gentleman in Moscow
Sobre El Autor
Amor Towles grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College and received an M.A. in English from Stanford University where he was a Scowcroft Fellow. His novel, "Rules of Civility" reached the bestseller lists of The New York Times, the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. The book mostrar más was rated by The Wall Street Journal as one of the ten best works of fiction in 2011. The book has been published in 15 languages. In the fall of 2012, the novel was optioned to be made into a feature film. Viking/Penguin published Towles's next novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, on September 6, 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Amor Towles
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 (2023) — Editor & Introduction — 39 copias, 5 reseñas
The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners (Best Short Stories: The O. Henry Prize Winners) (2024) 5 copias
The Bootlegger 4 copias
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1964
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- País (para mapa)
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Manhattan, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Educación
- Yale College
Stanford University - Ocupaciones
- investor
novelist - Biografía breve
- Amor Towles (born 1964) is an American novelist. He is best known for his bestselling novels Rules of Civility (2011) and A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), the latter of which made him a finalist for the 2016 Kirkus Prize.
Towles was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College and received an M.A. in English from Stanford University, where he was a Scowcroft Fellow. When Towles was 10 years old, he threw a bottle with a message inside into the Atlantic Ocean. Several weeks later, he received a letter from Harrison Salisbury, who was then the managing editor of The New York Times. Towles and Salisbury corresponded for many years afterward.
After graduating from Yale University. Towles was set to teach in China on a two-year fellowship from the Yale China Association. However, this was abruptly canceled due to the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.
From 1991 to 2012, he worked as an investment banker and director of research at Select Equity Group in New York.
When Towles was a younger man, he credits renowned nature writer, novelist and one of the founders of The Paris Review, Peter Matthiessen, as the primary inspiration for writing novels. Towles' first book Rules of Civility was successful beyond his expectations; so much so that the proceeds from the book afforded him the luxury of retirement from investment banking so that he could pursue writing full time.
Towles resides in Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City, with his wife, Maggie, their son, Stokley, and their daughter, Esmé. Towles is a collector of fine-art and antiques.
Miembros
Debates
October 2020: Amor Towles en Monthly Author Reads (noviembre 2020)
Group Read: Rules of Civility en 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (abril 2019)
A Gentleman in Moscow en The Green Dragon (noviembre 2017)
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Book Club 2017 (1)
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- Obras
- 24
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- 2
- Miembros
- 19,751
- Popularidad
- #1,099
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 1,115
- ISBNs
- 188
- Idiomas
- 20
- Favorito
- 20
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