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The famous American author Adam Fawer visited Ankara

November 5, 2009
Adam Fawer with his fans in Ankara

Adam Fawer with his fans in Ankara

Adam Fawer visited Turkey to attend the TUYAP International Book Fair in Istanbul and gave lectures at universities in Ankara in November.

He spoke at Hacettepe, Bilkent and METU universities on his books “Improbable” and “Empathy and his writing career. He gave interviews for print media, TV and ODTU radio station. 

Fawer also met with his fans at a book signing at D&R.

Adam Fawer is a native New Yorker, born in Manhattan in 1970.  Though he originally studied marketing and finance at the Wharton School and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, he's always had a love for writing.  While attending Stanford, he was the Editor-in-Chief of The Reporter, which was awarded the Best Business School Newspaper by the editors of The Wall Street Journal, Business Week and The Financial Times

After working for several years at companies like Sony Music and About.com, Adam first ventured into writing professionally. His debut novel, Improbable, was an international best-seller, translated into eighteen languages and won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel.  His second novel, Empathy, has also been very successful worldwide.

Adam is currently finishing his third novel, which will likely be published in 2010.  He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Meredith and his two sons, Phineas and Odin.