Olen Steinhauer
1970
Olen Steinhauer is a New York Times bestselling author from America. He writes mostly in the spy fiction and mystery genres and is famous for his series’, ‘The Tourist’, and the ‘Yalta Boulevard Sequence’. Olen was born on June 21, 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. He spent most of his youth in Virginia and studied at a university in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. He later graduated from The University of Texas, Austin. Olen has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Emerson College in Boston. He has traveled to a lot of places other than Virginia such as Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California and New York in U.S. He has also lived in Croatia, Italy and Czech Republic. Olen says that he got the inspiration for writing his first five books while living in Romania on a Fulbright grant for a year. He received the grant to write a novel about the Romanian Revolution, after completing his graduation. The novel was titled ‘Tzara’s Monocle’. Olen used the manuscript of the novel in his own writings after moving back to New York City. His first book to be published was The Bridge of Sighs, which was a historical mystery set around Eastern Europe. Over the years, Olen has written and published a number of stories and poetry in various literary journals.