About the author
After earning a B.A. degree at Washington University in St Louis and graduating Phi Beta Kappa, Ed Cone spent a year studying political science on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Université de Lyon, France, then won a Fellowship to Columbia University's School of International Affairs. He pursued a career in publishing while writing novels and short stories on the side.
He has worked as an editor for such publishers as Random House, Macmillan, St. Martin's, Dutton, and William Morrow, and as a book review editor for Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. He also reviews books in such areas as literary fiction, politics, and international relations. As a Tour Guide licensed by New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs, he has given tours of Manhattan and Brooklyn for a private clientele, some of which he's conducted in French and in German. He is also an enthusiastic linguist with varying degrees of fluency in French, German, Italian, Russian, and modern Greek. He has studied tap dancing and is probably the only tap-dancing former managing editor in New York City.
Originally from the South, Cone has lived with his family in Manhattan for decades. The Counterfeiter is his first published novel.