Olen Steinhauer | |
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 Steinhauer at the Budapest Literary Festival inHungary, June 2010 | |
| Born | (1970-06-21)June 21, 1970 (age 54) Baltimore,Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Alma mater | Emerson College |
| Genre | Spy fiction |
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Olen Steinhauer (born June 21, 1970 inBaltimore) is an American writer ofspy fiction novels, includingThe Tourist, part of the Milo Weaver series, and the Yalta Boulevard Sequence. Steinhauer also created the TV seriesBerlin Station, focused on a fictionalCentral Intelligence Agency branch operating inBerlin, which began airing in 2016.
On June 21, 1970, Steinhauer was born inBaltimore, Maryland, United States. Steinhauer grew up inVirginia.
Steinhauer attended university atLock Haven University of Pennsylvania, and theUniversity of Texas,Austin. He received anMFA increative writing atEmerson College inBoston.[citation needed]
After graduation, Steinhauer received a year-longFulbright grant to write a novel inRomania about theRomanian Revolution. It was calledTzara's Monocle, and when he moved toNew York City afterward, he used that manuscript to secure aliterary agent. However, it was with another book, the historical mystery set inEastern Europe,The Bridge of Sighs, that Steinhauer first found publication.
His 2009 CIA novel,The Tourist, received positive reviews and is being developed for film bySony Pictures Entertainment forDoug Liman to direct.[1]
During the winter of 2009-10, Steinhauer was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature[2] at theUniversity of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies inLeipzig, Germany.
The Bridge of Sighs was the first in a five-book series ofthrillers chronicling the evolution of a fictional Eastern European country situated in the historical location ofRuthenia (now part of Ukraine) during theCold War, with one book for each decade. Each book also focuses on a different main character.
