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Amor Towles
Amor Towles is an American novelist, born in 1964 and raised in the Boston area. He graduated from Yale and took an MA in English at Stanford, where his thesis, a short story cycle called "The Temptations of Pleasure", appeared in The Paris Review in 1989. He worked as an investment professional for more than twenty years before turning to writing full time, and lives in Manhattan. His first novel, Rules of Civility (2011), follows a young woman through one year of 1938 New York; its French tra...