Tom Rachman was born in 1974 in London, and grew up in Vancouver. After a Master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University, he worked as an editor at the foreign desk of Associated Press in New York, then did a stint as a reporter in India and Sri Lanka. In 2002, he was sent to Rome as an AP correspondent and from 2006, he worked part-time as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris. Tom now lives in Rome, where he is working on his second novel. The Imperfectionists was longlisted for the Giller Prize 2010.
Website: http://tomrachman.com/