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Amor Towles (born October 24,1964) is an American novelist. He is best known for his bestselling novels Rules of Civility (2011), A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), and The Lincoln Highway (2021). Towles began writing following a career in investment banking.
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Mar 30, 2024 · TABLE FOR TWO: Fictions, by Amor Towles. Few literary stylists not named Ann Patchett attain best-sellerdom, but Amor Towles makes the cut. His three lauded novels — “Rules of Civility ...
Amor's novels Rules of Civility , The Lincoln Highway & A Gentleman in Moscow, are all on the New York Times bestseller list. Bill Gates & President Obama included A Gentleman in Moscow & The Lincoln Highway on their annual book recommendation lists.
Born and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. Having worked as an investment professional in Manhattan for over twenty years, he now devotes himself fulltime to writing.
A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin.
Oct 5, 2021 · By Amor Towles. Amor Towles’s third novel begins with a deceptively straightforward premise. Upon the death of his father from cancer, 18-year-old Emmett Watson is released early from a...
