Grew up in Virginia, lived in Austin, San Francisco, Boston, Brooklyn, and other places in the States, as well as Romania (on a Fulbright research fellowship), Italy, and Hungary (where I've lived since 2002, now with my wife and daughter).
An MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston, a BA in English from the University of Texas, Austin. Semester in Zagreb, Fall/Winter 1989 (when the Wall fell).
First novel (The Bridge of Sighs) nominated for 5 awards, including the CWA Historical Dagger. Two Edgar nominations to my credit. The Tourist was nominated for the SpecSavers CWA Ian Fleming Silver Dagger and reached the New York Times bestseller list. It's also being developed for a feature film by Warner Bros and Smoke House Productions, starring George Clooney.
