Wolfram Fleischhauer, born in 1961, grew up in Southern Germany. At the age of 17, he spent a year in Warren, Ohio, as an exchange student. He studied languages and literature in Germany, France and Spain and did graduate studies in literary theory at UC-Irvine. After obtaining his M.A. degree with a thesis on Don DeLillo, he turned away from academia in favor of writing novels. Fluent in German, English, French and Spanish, he trained as a conference interpreter and has been working for the European Commission since 1992. To date, Wolfram Fleischhauer has published 8 novels, all of which have been translated into several languages. Since his debut with "The Purple Line" in 1996, he has written historical novels as well as contemporary fiction. Most of his novels have become bestsellers, attesting to his ever growing readership. He lives in Berlin and Brussels, is married and has two children.