Amor Towles

Amor Towles (born 1964) is an American novelist best known for his bestselling novels Rules of Civility (2011), A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), and The Lincoln Highway (2021). Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Towles graduated from Yale College and received an M.A. in English from Stanford University. He was set to teach in China on a fellowship but it was canceled due to the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Towles worked as an investment manager and director of research at Select Equity Group from 1991 to 2012. In addition to his writing career, Towles once corresponded with Harrison Salisbury, the managing editor of The New York Times, after throwing a message in a bottle into the Atlantic Ocean as a child.