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Amor Hollingsworth Towles (born October 24, 1964 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American novelist.
life and work
Towles graduated from Yale and received an MA in English from Stanford . After graduating, he worked as an investment banker for Select Equity Group Inc. , New York , for around 20 years . In 2013 he stopped working there.
His first novel, Rules of Civility , was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2011. His second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow , was 57 weeks on the bestseller list of the New York Times ., Was 2016 finalist of Kirkus Prize in Fiction & Literature and was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award nominated. In 2018, Kenneth Branagh and Xavier Marchand of Moonriver Content acquired the film rights to the book. A TV series with Branagh in the lead role is planned.
Towles is a director of the Library of America , Yale Art Gallery, and the Wallace Foundation. He is married with a son and a daughter and lives in Gramercy Park , Manhattan .
Novels and short stories
The Temptations of Pleasure , a cycle of short stories and a thesis for Stanford, was published in 1989 in Paris Review No. 112.
- Rules of Civility . London: Hodder & Stoughton 2011.
- German: A question of courtesy. Translated by Susanne Höbel. 2017.
- Eve in Hollywood . Published in 2013 as an e-book
- A gentleman in Moscow . New York: Vintage 2016.
- German: A gentleman in Moscow. From the americ. English by Susanne Höbel. 2018.
- Audiobook, abridged edition, read by Hans Jürgen Stockerl, 9 CDs, HörBook, Hamburg, 2018.
Web links
- Literature by and about Amor Towles in the catalog of the German National Library
- Amor Towles: Channel a More Romantic Era of Transatlantic Travel www.ontraveler.com, September 7, 2016, accessed January 28, 2020
- Amor Towles, website
- Amor Towles, a Gentleman in Gramercy Park The New York Times, September 25, 2016
- Vera Kean: Banished to Luxury: Amor Towles publishersweekly.com
- Amor Towles, Stephen Barcley Society's best-selling novelist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amor H. Towles Wallace Foundation, accessed January 14, 2020
- ↑ Books, Best Sellers, Hardcover Fiction , The New York Times, April 22, 2018, accessed January 28, 2020
- ↑ Kirkus, 2015 winners accessed on January 14, 2020
- ↑ Dublin Literary Award 2020, 2018 longlist , accessed on January 14, 2020
- ↑ John Hazelton: Kenneth Branagh to star in and produce 'A Gentleman In Moscow' for eOne ScreenDaily, April 4, 2018, accessed January 13, 2020
- Jump up ↑ Amor Towles, a Gentleman in Gramercy Park , The New York Times, September 25, 2016, accessed January 14, 2020
- ↑ A Study Guide for Amor Towles' "A Gentleman in Moscow", introduction. Gale, Farmington Hills, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Towles, Cupid |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Towles, Amor Hollingsworth (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |