Occupation Novelist Role Author Name Paul Watkins | Nationality American | |
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Born January 1, 1964 ( 1964-01 ) Education Dragon School, Eton College, Yale University Books Stand Before Your God, The Forger, The Ice Soldier, Calm at Sunset - Calm at D, Night over day over night | ||
Alma mater Yale University (B.A.) | ||
Paul Watkins (born January 1, 1964) is an American author who currently lives with his wife, Cathy, and two children, Emma and Oliver, in Hightstown, New Jersey. He is a teacher and writer-in-residence at The Peddie School, and formerly taught at Lawrenceville School. He attended the Dragon School, Oxford, Eton and Yale University. He received a B.A. from Yale and was a University Fellow at Syracuse University, New York. His recollections of his time at the Dragon School and Eton form his autobiographical work Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England (1993). He wrote his first book, Night Over Day Over Night (1988), when he was 16 years old.
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Recently Watkins has begun writing a series of novels under the pseudonym Sam Eastland. His new detective series is set in Stalinist Russia with Inspector Pekkala as protagonist.