Paul Watkins (novelist)

Paul Watkins
Paul Watkins
Born	January 1, 1965 (age 59)
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Education	Yale University (BA)
Website
	www.paulwatkins.com

Paul Watkins (born January 1, 1964)

The Peddie School, and formerly taught at Lawrenceville School. He attended the Dragon School, Oxford, Eton^[2] and Yale University. He received a B.A. from Yale and was a University Fellow at Syracuse University. His recollections of his time at the Dragon School and Eton form his autobiographical work Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England (1993). He wrote his first book, Night Over Day Over Night (1988), when he was 16 years old.^[3]

Fiction

Night Over Day Over Night (1988)

Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn (1989) (won 1990 Encore Award)
In the Blue Light of African Dreams (1990)
The Promise of Light (1992)
Archangel (1995)
The Story of my Disappearance (1997)
The Forger
(2000)
Thunder God (2004)
The Ice Soldier (2005)

Non-fiction

Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England (1993)
The Fellowship of Ghosts: Travels in the Land of Midnight Sun (2006)

Recent works

Recently Watkins has begun writing a series of novels under the pseudonym Sam Eastland. His new detective series is set in Stalinist Russia with Inspector Pekkala as protagonist.

Eye of the Red Tsar (2010)
The Red Coffin (UK title) / Shadow Pass (US title) (2011)
Siberian Red (UK title) / Archive 17 (US title) (2012)
The Red Moth (2013)
The Beast in the Red Forest (2014)
Red Icon (2015)
Berlin Red (2016)

References

^ ^a ^b Paul Watkins (Author of Stand Before Your God)
^ Hofmann, Michael (October 7, 1993). "Don't Blub". London Review of Books. 15 (19): 18–19.
^ "Audio Interview with Paul Watkins". Archived from the original on March 8, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2008.

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[birth_date-1] Paul Watkins (Author of Stand Before Your God)

[2] Hofmann, Michael (October 7, 1993). "Don't Blub". London Review of Books. 15 (19): 18–19.

[3] "Audio Interview with Paul Watkins". Archived from the original on March 8, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2008.

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