And wherever he goes, his His fiction includes The Mosquito Coast, My Secret History, My Other Life, Kowloon Tong, Blinding Light, and most recently, The Elephanta Suite.
Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, Fresh Air Fiend, and Dark Star Safari.
Theroux is firsthand witness to it all, traveling as the locals do—by stifling train, rattletrap bus, illicit taxi, and mud-caked foot—encountering adventures only he could have: from the literary (sparring with the incisive Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk) to the dissolute (surviving a week-long bender on the Trans-Siberian Railroad). And wherever he goes, his omnivorous curiosity and unerring eye for detail never fail to inspire, enlighten, inform, and entertain.
PAUL THEROUX was born in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1941 and published his first novel, Waldo, in 1967.
His fiction includes The Mosquito Coast, My Secret History, My Other Life, Kowloon Tong, Blinding Light, and most recently, The Elephanta Suite.
Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, Fresh Air Fiend, and Dark Star Safari.
He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod.
He has been the guest editor of The Best American Travel Writing and is a frequent contributor to various magazines, including The New Yorker.