VJ Books Presents Author Paul Watkins (aka Sam Eastland)!
 Paul Watkins (born January 1, 1964) is an American author. He attended the Dragon School, Oxford, Eton and Yale University. He received a B.A. from Yale and was a University Fellow at Syracuse University, New York.
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.
Watkins also writes a detective series of novels under the pseudonym Sam Eastland. The series is set in Stalinist Russia with Inspector Pekkala as protagonist.
He is a teacher and writer-in-residence at The Peddie School, and formerly taught at Lawrenceville School.
Watkins lives with his wife, Cathy, and two children, Emma and Oliver, in Hightstown, New Jersey.
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Paul Watkins / Sam Eastland Bibliography
Fiction
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Night Over Day Over Night (1988)
- Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn (1989)
- 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)
Inspector Pekkala Series (writing as Sam Eastland)
- 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)
Non-Fiction
- Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England (1993)
- The Fellowship of Ghosts: Travels in the Land of Midnight Sun (2006)
Paul Watkins Awards
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