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www.paulwatkins.com |
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Paul Watkins (born 1964) is an American author who currently lives with his wife, [Cathy] and two children, [Emma, 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, New York. 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.[1]
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Recently Watkins has begun writing a series of novels under the pseudonym Sam Eastland.[2] His new detective series is set in Stalinist Russia with Inspector Pekkala as protagonist. The first novel is titled Eye of the Red Tsar (2010) and focuses on the fall of the Romanovs. It is followed by Shadow Pass (2011), published in the UK as The Red Coffin, with more to come in the future.