Adam LeBor

Adam LeBor is a British author, journalist, writing coach and editorial trainer. Born in London in 1961, he worked as a foreign correspondent from 1991 for many years but is now based in London. Mostly based in Budapest, he also lived in Berlin and Paris and spent substantial amounts of time reporting from the former Yugoslavia.

He covered the collapse of Communism and the Yugoslav wars for ''The Independent ''and ''The Times'' and has worked in more than thirty countries, some of which inspired his book writing. He currently contributes to ''The Times,'' the ''Financial Times'', where he reviews thrillers, ''The Critic'', ''Monocle'' and several other publications. He works as an editorial trainer and writing coach at the ''Financial Times, Citywire'' and ''Monocle'' and is a former contributor to ''Harry's Place''.

LeBor has written eight non-fiction books, including ''Hitler's Secret Bankers'', which exposed Swiss complicity with the Nazis and which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, a biography of Slobodan Milosevic, and ''City of Oranges'', an account of Jewish and Arab families in Jaffa, which was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Prize. His books have been published in fourteen languages including Chinese, Hebrew and Japanese. Provided by Wikipedia