Paul Watkins (novelist)

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Paul Watkins (born 1964) is an American author who currently lives with his wife and two children in East Windsor, 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" (1993). He wrote his first book, "Night Over Day Over Night" (1988), when he was 16 years old. [ [http://wiredforbooks.org/paulwatkins/index.htm Paul Watkins Interview with Don Swaim ] ]

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" (1993)
* "The Fellowship of Ghosts: Travels in the Land of Midnight Sun" (2006)

References

External links

* [http://www.paulwatkins.com/mainmenu.htm Paul Watkins website]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/paul-watkins/ Paul Watkins on www.fantasticfiction.co.uk]