Jason Goodwin
1964
Born in the year 1964, Jason Goodwin is an historian and an English writer. At Cambridge University, Jason studied Bryzantine History. After Gunpowder Gardens, Travel in China and India and a Time for Tea proved to be successful, Jason decided to walk from Poland to Turkey. On the Foot to the Golden Horn talks about his journey and also this book scooped the John Liewellyn Sunday Prize in the year 1993. Later on he wrote about the Lords of the Horizon, a book which was to be future in the front page of the New York times. Later on he became an exceedingly popular author of mystery series with the Janissary Tree being his first ever mystery novel. This novel talks about Yashim the Ottoman investigator, who lived in Istanbul during the 1930’s. This novel won the Edgar Award in the category best novel. All the novels in this series have all been translated to more than 40 languages.