All the Old Knives (Steinhauer) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—June 21, 1970
• Where—Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Education—University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven; University of Texas, Austin;
   M.F.A. Emerson College
• Awards—Dashiell Hammett Award
• Currently—lives in New York City and Budapest, Hungary


Olen Steinhauer is an American writer of spy fiction novels, including The Tourist, the Milo Weaver Trilogy, and the Yalta Boulevard Sequence.

Early life
Steinhauer was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in Virginia. He attended the University of Pennsylvania at Lock Haven, and the University of Texas at 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.

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
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.

2003 - The Bridge of Sighs  (Emil Brod, 1948; nominated for five awards)
2004 - The Confession (Ferenc Kolyeszar, 1956)
2005 - 36 Yalta Boulevard (Brano Sev, 1966–1967)
2006 - Liberation Movements (Brano Sev, et al., 1968 & 1975; nominated for the Edgar Award)
2007 - Victory Square (2007) (Emil Brod, 1989, the end of communism)

The Milo Weaver Trilogy
Spy tales focused on international deception in the post 9/11 world.
2009 - The Tourist
2010 - The Nearest Exit
2012 - An American Spy

Standalone novels
2014 - The Cairo Affair
2015 - All the Old Knives
(Author bio adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 11/18/2015.)