About the Author
Author and novelist Thomas Hauser made his debut as a writer in 1978 with The Execution of Charles Horman, which became known as Missing after the release of the 1982 Costa-Gavras film it inspired. The book was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize and National Book Award. His thriller The Beethoven Conspiracy won the Prix de Lafayette, a French literary prize given biannually to the outstanding book by an American author. Hauser, who is also a practicing attorney in New York, is also the author of Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, a definitive biography of the sports legend and humanitarian. Thomas Hauser is the author of 21 books, the most recent of which is the novel Mark Twain Remembers.