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Alan Furst was born in New York City in 1941. He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and spent a lot of time as a child exploring the city. He majored in English at Oberlin College, and after graduating became a taxi drive in New York. He then became a teaching assistant at Pennsylvania State University, where he would also do his masters. Furst began a PhD, but did not complete it. He did however complete a Fulbright teaching fellowship at the University of Montpellier in France.

Upon his return to the United States, Furst moved to Seattle and took up work as a advertising copywriter. While here, he wrote his first novel, Your Day in the Barrel, and then three more. He later moved to Bainbridge Island and began writing columns and articles for various magazines including Esquire, The International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times. Furst moved back to France, this time Paris, and lived there for seven years while continuing to write freelance and work on his novels.

Furst's writing approach has changed vastly since his early days as a novelist, and his first few novels are written very differently than the rest. He is best known for his Night Soldiers novels, a series of related historical spy thrillers with largely independent plots, but reoccurring characters.

Furst currently lives in Sag Harbor, on the east end of Long Island. You can find signed and rare collectible Alan Furst novels/books below this bio.