"When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found it and contacted me. We began a correspondence that lasted for years, and I eventually met him when I was 18."
Amor Towles is an American novelist best known for Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway. His fiction is widely translated and has reached international bestseller lists.