Author

Books by Amor Towles

Amor Towles is an American novelist born in Boston and educated at Yale and Stanford. He spent many years as an investment professional in New York before publishing his debut novel Rules of Civility in 2011. His second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016, became one of the most widely read literary novels of the decade, selling over two million copies. The Lincoln Highway, published in 2021, debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Towles is known for meticulous historical research, elegant prose, and a commitment to narrative pleasure over literary minimalism.