![]() ![]() Five years after the success of A Gentleman in Moscow, Towles made his long-awaited comeback with his third novel, The Lincoln Highway, which hit the stands in late 2021. The detour that Towles took in his life was depicted in his latest novel. ![]() His second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), was equally successful, further consolidating his status as a rising literary star. It was a commercial and critical success, establishing Towles as a writer to watch out for. In 2011, he finally published his first novel, The Rules of Civility. Inspiration was hard to come by but eventually came. It was after a decade of working in the corporate world that he realized that the desire to write still burns within him. However, his dream of becoming a writer took the backseat as he had to earn a stable salary in order to support himself and his family. He credited novelist Peter Matthiessen, a naturalist and one of the founders of the popular magazine The Paris Review, as his inspiration for his writings. A series of his short stories were even published in The Paris Review in 1989. While he was studying, he used his breaks to write. ![]() This can be gleaned from the story of American writer Amor Towles. The journey towards our destination is not always straightforward. ![]()
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