About the Author
Noah Gordon has had outstanding international success, selling in Spain and Germany alone more than eight million
copies of his recent trilogy (The Physician, Shaman, and Matters of Choice). The Society of American
Historians awarded him the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Shaman as the best historical novel of
1991/1992. He was also voted "Novelist of the Year" by the readers of the Bertelsmann Book Club, and
twice, in 1992 and 1995, he won the Silver Basque Prize for Spain's bestselling book. An earlier book, The
Rabbi, was on the New York Times Bestseller list for 26 weeks. Noah Gordon lives with his wife in
Brookline, Massachusetts.