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Tom Reiss


Tom Reiss is the PEN Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Black Count and The Orientalist, both New York Times bestsellers that have been translated into more than thirty languages. His work explores the hidden intersections of politics, identity, and storytelling across cultures and centuries. Reiss’s articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in New York City.

Books by Tom Reiss

The Black Count

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2013. Reiss, like the novelist Dumas before him, triumphantly resurrects a lost hero - General Alexandre Dumas, the real count of Monte Cristo.

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The Orientalist

An extraordinary and hugely topical story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab world, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

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