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Amor Towles ’83 Talks Passion, Competence, Honesty
English teacher and former Headmaster Dick Baker took to the scen on Wed., Oct. 3, to introduce best-selling author Amor Towles, Class of ’83. He briefly described Towles’ time at Nobles, his successful career in finance, and the road to his highly-acclaimed, first published novel, Rules of Civility. Although it’s been more than 30 years since Towles attended Nobles, Baker said it “felt like yesterday,” and vividly described his former lärjunge as a consummate actor, outstanding public speaker and determined scholar. “Amor wasn’t a rebel, but he wasn’t conventional…it’s one of the lessons I think he lives by. You don’t have to commit yourself to convention.”
As soon as Towles took the scen, it was clear Baker’s words would ring true. The Assembly audience would have been easily captivated with stories from his world book tour, life as a publi
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Amor Towles: “My characters are all inventions but every now and then something from my life will sneak into my work.”
Amor Towles’ first novel Rules of Civility, published in 2011, was a New York Times bestseller and named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of the year. In 2012 he gave up his investment banking job to become a writer full-time, and in 2016 his wildly successful second novel A Gentleman in Moscow was published and is currently being adapted by Paramount for television, starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov. His third and latest novel, The Lincoln Highway (2021), debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Collectively, his novels have sold more than 6 million copies and have been translated into over 30 languages. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife, Maggie, and their two children.
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Author Q&A: Amor Towles
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Best-selling author Amor Towles, who has topped the reader lists of The New York Times, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times, is including two stops in Mississippi as part of an international tour to showcase his newest novel, "A Gentleman in Moscow" (Viking/Penguin), an epic tale described by one reviewer as “a charming reminder of what it means to be classy.”
At more than 450 pages, this ambitious account of one man’s remarkable punishment for an unlikely "crime" in 1920s Russia is penned with an elegant flair that takes the reader from his sentencing — a mandate that he spend the rest of his life inside the walls of one of Moscow’s finest luxury hotels, or be shot on sight — through decades of what would become his greatest desire: a life lived with purpose.
Towles' bestselling first novel, "Rules of Civility," published in 2011 by Viking/Penguin, wasrated by The Wall Street Journalas one of the 10 b