Paul Watkins (novelist)

Paul Watkins (born January 1, 1964) is an American author who currently lives with his wife, Cathy, and two children, Emma and Oliver, in Hightstown, New Jersey. He is a teacher and writer-in-residence at The Peddie School, and formerly taught at Lawrenceville School. He attended the Dragon School, Oxford, Eton and Yale University. He received a B.A. from Yale and was a University Fellow at Syracuse University. His recollections of his time at the Dragon School and Eton form his autobiographical work Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England (1993). He wrote his first book, Night Over Day Over Night (1988), when he was 16 years old.

Fiction

 * Night Over Day Over Night (1988)
 * Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn (1989) (won 1990 Encore Award)
 * In the Blue Light of African Dreams (1990)
 * The Promise of Light (1992)
 * Archangel (1995)
 * The Story of my Disappearance (1997)
 * The Forger (2000)
 * Thunder God (2004)
 * The Ice Soldier (2005)

Non-fiction

 * Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England (1993)
 * The Fellowship of Ghosts: Travels in the Land of Midnight Sun (2006)

Recent works
Recently Watkins has begun writing a series of novels under the pseudonym Sam Eastland. His new detective series is set in Stalinist Russia with Inspector Pekkala as protagonist.
 * Eye of the Red Tsar (2010)
 * The Red Coffin (UK title) / Shadow Pass (US title) (2011)
 * Siberian Red (UK title) / Archive 17 (US title) (2012)
 * The Red Moth (2013)
 * The Beast in the Red Forest (2014)
 * Red Icon (2015)
 * Berlin Red (2016)