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Amor Towles
American novelist (born )
Amor Towles (born ) is an American novelist. He is best known for his bestselling novels Rules of Civility (),[1]A Gentleman in Moscow (),[2] and The Lincoln Highway ().[3] Towles began writing following a career in investment banking.
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Early life and education
Towles was born and raised in Boston, to Stokley Porter Towles, an investment banker at Brown Brothers Harriman and a philanthropist, and Holly Hollingsworth. His parents later divorced.
He has a brother, Stokley Jr.; a sister, Kimbrough; and two stepbrothers.[4] When Towles was 10 years old, he threw a bottle with a message into the Atlantic Ocean. Several weeks later, he received a letter from Harrison Salisbury, then managing editor of The New York Times, who had found the bottle.
Towles and Salisbury corresponded for many years afterward.[5]
He graduated from Yale College and received a Master of Arts degree in Engli