Occupation Novelist Role Writer Name Olen Steinhauer | ||
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Nominations Edgar Award for Best Novel Books The Tourist, All the Old Knives, The Cairo Affair, An American Spy, The Nearest Exit | ||
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Olen Steinhauer (born June 21, 1970) is an American writer of spy fiction novels, including The Tourist, the Milo Weaver Trilogy, and the Yalta Boulevard Sequence.
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- Olen steinhauer die kairo aff re thriller blessing verlag
- An american spy by olen steinhauer audiobook excerpt
- Early life
- Education
- Career
- The Yalta Boulevard Sequence
- The Milo Weaver Trilogy
- Standalone novels
- References
An american spy by olen steinhauer audiobook excerpt
Early life
On June 21, 1970, Steinhauer was born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Steinhauer grew up in Virginia.
Education
Steinhauer attended university at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Texas, Austin. He received an MFA in creative writing at Emerson College in Boston.
Career
After graduation, Steinhauer received a year-long Fulbright grant to write a novel in Romania about the Romanian Revolution. It was called Tzara's Monocle, and when he moved to New York City afterward, he used that manuscript to secure a literary agent. However, it was with another book, the historical mystery set in Eastern Europe, The Bridge of Sighs, that Steinhauer first found publication.
His 2009 CIA novel, The Tourist, received positive reviews and is being developed for film by Sony Pictures Entertainment for Doug Liman to direct.
During the winter of 2009-10, Steinhauer was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.
The Yalta Boulevard Sequence
The Bridge of Sighs was the first in a five-book series of thrillers chronicling the evolution of a fictional Eastern European country situated in the historical location of Ruthenia (now part of the Ukraine) during the Cold War, with one book for each decade. Each book also focuses on a different main character.