Leaving Berlin (Kanon) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—1946
• Where—in the state of Pennsylvania, USA
• Education—Harvard University; Cambridge University
• Awards—Edgar Award; Hammet Award
• Currently—lives in New York City, New York


Joseph Kanon is an American author, best known for thriller and spy novels set in the period immediately after World War II.

Kanon was born in Pennsylvania and studied at Harvard University and at Trinity College in Cambridge. As an undergraduate, he published his first stories in the The Atlantic Monthly. Later he became editor in chief, CEO, and president of the publishing houses Houghton Mifflin and E. P. Dutton in New York, before he began writing in 1995.

Books
1997 - Los Alamos - Edgar Award for best first novel
1998 - The Prodigal Spy
2001 - The Good German - adapted to film starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett
2005 - Alibi - Hammett Award (International Association of Crime Writers)
2009 - Stardust
2012 - Istanbul Passage
2015 - Leaving Berlin

Kanon is also a recipient of The Anne Frank Human Writers Award for his writings on the aftermath of the Holocaust

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. His 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 Carre.

Kanon lives with his wife, the literary agent Robin Straus, in New York City. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 4/15/2015.)