Joseph Canon

Joseph Kanon (born 1946 in Pennsylvania , USA ) is an American author.

biography

Kanon studied at Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and Trinity College in Cambridge . As a student, he published his first stories in The Atlantic Monthly magazine . He later served as the director of Houghton Mifflin and EP Dutton publishers in New York for years before turning to writing in 1995. His first novel, The Days Before Los Alamos , became a bestseller and in 1998 received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel debut. This was followed by other novels such as The Lost Spy , In the Ruins of Berlin andCity without memory ( Hammett Prize 2006).

His books are thrillers that take place between the end of the war and around 1950. Real events such as B. the Manhattan Project or the Potsdam Conference as a backdrop for murder stories. Boston Globe and New York Times critics even compared his work to that of Graham Greene and John le Carré . His novel In the ruins of Berlin in 2006 by Steven Soderbergh with George Clooney and Cate Blanchett filmed .

Joseph Kanon is married to the literary agent Robin Straus and lives in New York.

Novels

1995: Los Alamos
- The days before Los Alamos, German by Klaus Berr; Munich, Blessing 1997. ISBN 3-89667-019-0
1999: The Prodigal Spy
- The Lost Spy, German by Sonja Schuhmacher and Barbara Steckhan; Munich, Blessing 1999. ISBN 3-89667-092-1
2001: The Good German
- In the ruins of Berlin, German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann; Munich, Blessing 2002. ISBN 3-89667-191-X
- also as: The Good German, same translation; Munich, Goldmann 2007. ISBN 3-442-46481-1
2005: Alibi
- City without memory, German by Rudolf Hermstein ; Munich, Blessing 2006. ISBN 3-89667-281-9
2009: Stardust
2012: Istanbul Passage
- The Istanbul Passage, German by Elfriede Peschel; Munich, C. Bertelsmann 2014. ISBN 978-3-570-10180-3
2014: Leaving Berlin
- Leaving Berlin, German by Elfriede Peschel; Munich, C. Bertelsmann 2015. ISBN 978-3-570-10179-7
2015: A Spy in Berlin
2017: Defectors

literature

Joseph A. Canon. The Writers Directory, St. James Press, 2018. Biography In Context, accessed October 5, 2018

Web links

Official website
Literature by and about Joseph Kanon in the catalog of the German National Library
Interview with Joseph Kanon (English) ( Memento of 4 February 2012 at the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Tobias Gohlis judged: "The dialogues are choreographed like a knife fight, the plot is as merciless as an ancient tragedy - Kanon's fourth novel is a masterpiece, the best historical crime fiction." ( Der Gutbelige American - DIE ZEIT No. 04/2006 from 19. January 2006, p. 56)

personal data
SURNAME	Canon, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American author
DATE OF BIRTH	1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pennsylvania , USA

[1] Tobias Gohlis judged: "The dialogues are choreographed like a knife fight, the plot is as merciless as an ancient tragedy - Kanon's fourth novel is a masterpiece, the best historical crime fiction." ( Der Gutbelige American - DIE ZEIT No. 04/2006 from 19. January 2006, p. 56)