

įrom 1991–2012, he worked as an investment manager and director of research at Select Equity Group in New York.

However, this was abruptly canceled due to the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. Career Īfter graduating from Yale University, Towles was set to teach in China on a two-year fellowship from the Yale China Association. Towles and Salisbury corresponded for many years afterward. Several weeks later, he received a letter from Harrison Salisbury, who was then the managing editor of The New York Times. When Towles was 10 years old, he threw a bottle with a message into the Atlantic Ocean.

in English from Stanford University, where he was a Scowcroft Fellow. He graduated from Yale College and received an M.A. Towles was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He is best known for his bestselling novels Rules of Civility (2011), A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), and The Lincoln Highway (2021). Amor Towles (born 1964) is an American novelist.
