Paul Watkins (born January 1, 1964)^[1] is an American author who currently lives with his wife, Cathy, and two children, Emma and Oliver, in Hightstown, New Jersey. He is a teacher and writer-in-residence at The Peddie School, and formerly taught at Lawrenceville School. He attended the Dragon School, Oxford, Eton^[2] and Yale University. He received a B.A. from Yale and was a University Fellow at Syracuse University. His recollections of his time at the Dragon School and Eton form his autobiographical work Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England (1993). He wrote his first book, Night Over Day Over Night (1988), when he was 16 years old.^[3]

Fiction

• Night Over Day Over Night (1988)
• Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn (1989) (won 1990 Encore Award)
• In the Blue Light of African Dreams (1990)
• The Promise of Light (1992)
• Archangel (1995)
• The Story of my Disappearance (1997)
• The Forger (2000)
• Thunder God (2004)
• The Ice Soldier (2005)

Non-fiction

• Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England (1993)
• The Fellowship of Ghosts: Travels in the Land of Midnight Sun (2006)

Recent works

Recently Watkins has begun writing a series of novels under the pseudonym Sam Eastland. His new detective series is set in Stalinist Russia with Inspector Pekkala as protagonist.

• Eye of the Red Tsar (2010)
• The Red Coffin (UK title) / Shadow Pass (US title) (2011)
• Siberian Red (UK title) / Archive 17 (US title) (2012)
• The Red Moth (2013)
• The Beast in the Red Forest (2014)
• Red Icon (2015)
• Berlin Red (2016)