Amor Towles

Amor Towles is an American novelist and New York Times bestselling author known for elegant historical fiction examining class, chance and personal reinvention. Born and raised near Boston, he studied at Yale University and earned a master’s degree in English from Stanford University. After more than twenty years working as an investment professional, he left finance to write full-time and now lives in Manhattan with his family.

His debut novel, Rules of Civility, follows a young woman navigating New York society in the late 1930s, while A Gentleman in Moscow centres on a Russian aristocrat sentenced to lifelong house arrest in the Metropol Hotel after the Bolshevik Revolution. He later published The Lincoln Highway, a journey across 1950s America, and Table for Two, a collection of shorter fiction. Towles’s books are distinguished by polished prose, carefully constructed historical settings and characters whose lives are redirected by unexpected encounters and moral choices.