Jake Lamar

Jake Lamar is the author of seven novels, a memoir, numerous essays, reviews and short stories, and a play. He was born in 1961 and grew up in the Bronx, New York. After graduating cum laude from Harvard University, he spent six years writing for Time magazine. He has lived in Paris since 1993 and has taught creative writing at one of France’s top universities, Sciences Po. In 2024, his latest work, Viper’s Dream, won Britain’s most prestigious prize for crime fiction, the Dagger Award, in the historical novel category. That same year, his novel If 6 were 9 won the top crime fiction prize in Germany, the Deutscher Krimipreis, in the international category. He is currently at work on a memoir about his life in Paris.