Name Joseph Kanon Role Author | Movies The Good German | |
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Awards Hammett Prize, Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author Nominations Barry Award for Best First Novel Books Istanbul Passage, Leaving Berlin, The Good German, Los Alamos, The Prodigal Spy: A No Similar People Steven Soderbergh, Paul Attanasio, Thomas Newman | ||
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Joseph Kanon (born 1946) is an American author, best known for thriller and spy novels set in the period immediately after World War II.
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- Nysl joseph kanon on istanbul passage
- Joseph kanon shares the highlights of berlin
- Early life
- Education
- Career
- Personal life
- Works
- References
Joseph kanon shares the highlights of berlin
Early life
In 1946, Kanon was born in Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education
Kanon studied at Harvard University, and at Trinity College in Cambridge. As an undergraduate, he published his first stories in the The Atlantic Monthly.
Career
Kanon was the editor in chief, CEO, and president of the publishing houses Houghton Mifflin and E. P. Dutton in New York.
Kanon began his writing career in 1995. Kanon's first novel, Los Alamos (1997), became a bestseller and received the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1998. Further novels followed, including The Prodigal Spy, The Good German and Alibi. Kanon's stories are set in the period between World War II and 1950, and he has often used a real event, such as the Potsdam Conference or the Manhattan Project, as the background for a murder case. Kanon's novels are critically acclaimed, and reviewers from the Boston Globe and The New York Times have compared his work with the novels of Graham Greene and John le Carré. A film based on The Good German was produced in 2006, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. Istanbul Passage is an erudite spy thriller set in that city in 1945. "Leaving Berlin" (2015) concerns an American expatriate who becomes an unwilling double agent of the American and East German intelligence services during the Berlin Airlift of 1948 - 1949.
Personal life
Kanon is married to Robin Straus, a literary agent. They reside in New York City, New York.