Olen Steinhauer

Olen Steinhauer is the author of The Cairo Affair, coming this March from Minotaur Books. His New York Times best-selling novel The Tourist, the first in his Milo Weaver trilogy, was optioned for the screen by Sony, with Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) set to direct. Steinhauer’s previous five novels, stories of crime and espionage set during the Cold War, got ecstatic praise from reviewers everywhere, from Stephen King to Esquire magazine. New York magazine pronounced him “one of the best novelists you’ve never read.” Raised in Virginia, Steinhauer lived for years in Budapest and at one point taught a course in spy fiction at the University of Leipzig in Germany. He currently lives in New York.