Joseph Kanon
Joseph Kanon ( born 1946 in Pennsylvania, USA) is an American author.
Biography
Canon studied at Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts ) and at Trinity College, Cambridge. As a student, he published his first stories for the American literary magazine The Atlantic Monthly. Later he was for many years head of the American publishers Houghton Mifflin and EP Dutton in New York, before 1995 even turned to the letter. His very first novel, The days before Los Alamos became a bestseller and won the 1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best debut novel. It was followed by other novels such as The Lost Spy, In the ruins of Berlin and the city with no memory ( Hammett Prize 2006). His books are thrillers that play in the period from end of the war until 1950. Here are real-world events, such as using the Manhattan Project or the Potsdam Conference as a backdrop for a tale of murder, for example. Critics from the Boston Globe and the New York Times compared his work even with that of Graham Greene and John Le Carré. His novel In the ruins of Berlin has been made into a film in 2006, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett in the lead roles. Joseph Kanon is married to the literary agent Robin Straus. The couple lives in New York.