Tom Reiss

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[[Tom Reiss]] is an American author who lives in [[New York City]]. He has written for ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', and ''[[The New York Times]]''. He is married and has two daughters.

Reiss wrote ''[[The Orientalist]]'', a biography of [[Lev Nussimbaum]], a writer who was born into a [[Jew]]ish [[Azerbaijan]]i family, who converted to [[Islam]], reinventing himself in [[Berlin]] as Essad Bey and Kurban Said.

Reiss was born in Texas on May 5, 1964, the eldest of four children of a neurosurgeon and a psychiatrist. He grew up in [[Longmeadow]], [[Massachusetts]]. He was educated at [[Hotchkiss School]] in Connecticut from which he went to [[Harvard University]] where he concentrated in History, writing an undergraduate thesis on the origins of the [[Boy Scout Movement]] in Edwardian [[Britain]]. He spent much of his early adult life travelling. He spent extensive periods living in Japan (where he was briefly a movie actor and model). Later he went to Germany where he infiltrated [[Neo-Nazi]] networks at the end of the 1980s, taking the name "Tom Rossi" to hide his own German Jewish ancestry, an experience which underlay ''[[Fuhrer-Ex]]'' (1996), which Reiss co-wrote with called Ingo Hasselbach, and which in 2002 was produced as a film. Later he went into the [[Caucasus]] region: it was there in Baku that he first wandered into the story which later became the Orientalist. He is a highly-skilled horseman, a crack shot, speaks 17 different languages (including Albanian and Uzbek), and is famous for his capacity to push himself for days of work without sleep.

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Tom Reiss