Tom Reiss

Tom Reiss was born in New York in 1964, where he currently lives with his wife and daughters.
He wrote about politics and culture for the The New York Times newspaperthe The Wall Street Journal and the The New Yorker, , among other publications.
In 1998, a report in Baku, Azerbaijan, for a travel magazine led Reiss to uncover the secret of the mystery of Kurban Said. The investigation of this figure became a way for the author to search for his family's lost European world. In Kurban Said, also known as Essad Bey and Lev Nussimbaum, a Jewish boy who became a Muslim prince and a renowned author in the heart of Nazi Europe, Reiss found the character he had been searching for all his life.