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 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, was on the New York Times bestseller list for over forty 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 EOne and the British director, Tom Harper, to be made into a 6-8 hour miniseries. 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. --http://www.amortowles.com/amor-towles-bio/

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Table For Two
Representative edition published 2024
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Table for Two
Representative edition published 2024
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The Lincoln Highway
Representative edition published 2023
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上流法则
Representative edition published 2017
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Rules of Civility
Representative edition published 2016
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A Gentleman in Moscow
Representative edition published 2016
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Bekledigim Sendin
Representative edition published 2013
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Annotated Great Gatsby
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Best Short Stories 2024
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Normas de Cortesía / Rules of Civility
Representative edition published 2024
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Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023
Representative edition published 2024
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Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023
Representative edition published 2023
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3 Novels Collection Set by Amor Towles - Rules of Civility, a Gentleman in Moscow, the Lincoln Highway
Representative edition published 2023
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The Lincoln Highway
Representative edition published 2021
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You Have Arrived at Your Destination -- Private Edition
Representative edition published 2020
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You Have Arrived At Your Destination
Representative edition published 2020
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ג'נטלמן במוסקבה
Representative edition published 2018
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Eve in Hollywood
Representative edition published 2013
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Kelale ha-nimus
Representative edition published 2012
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