Sylvain Neuvel

Sylvain Neuvel was born in Quebec, Canada. He is the modern writer and his academic credentials make it quite obvious that he is a multi talented personality. He has achieved success in different fields of study. He earned his BA in linguistics in 1999 from the Universite de Montreal. He then went on to get his PhD in linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2003. He has traveled around the world working, doing different jobs. He had dropped out of high school when he was fifteen years old and yet managed to amass a wealth of knowledge in various subjects. Some of the jobs which he did were being an ice cream vendor, furniture seller, working in soil decontamination and being a journalist for a brief period.