Jason Goodwin Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

Jason Goodwin Biography

Jason Goodwin studied Byzantine history at Cambridge University – and then returned to an old obsession to write The Gunpowder Gardens: Travels in China and India in Search of Tea, which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Award.

When the Berlin Wall fell, he walked from Poland to Istanbul to encounter the new European neighbours. His account of the journey, On Foot to the Golden Horn, won the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize in 1993.

Having always wanted to write fiction, he wrote The Janissary Tree which won the coveted Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2007. Translated into more than 40 languages, the currently 5-book series features a detective, Yashim, who lives in 19th century Istanbul. The Baklava Club (2014) is the fifth and possibly last installment in the series.

Jason lives with his wife and their four children in England.

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