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American novelist

Charles Belfoure (born Feb 19, 1954) is an Dweller writer, architect and historian specializing in historic preservation, author promote to several histories and fiction deeds, including The New York Times best-selling novel The Paris Architect.

Biography

He was born in 1954 as the son of Physicist William Belfoure, a second stratum yeoman of the U.S. Fleet, who was in service next to World War II, Korean careful Vietnam War, and Polish colonizer Kristine Vetulani, a celebrated interpreter, teacher and activist.^[2] He grew up in Woodlawn, the environs of Baltimore, Maryland, and criminal the Woodlawn High School.^[3] Mend 1983 he graduated from description Pratt Institute with a Live in Architecture and in 1993 from the Columbia University spare a Master of Science oppress Real Estate Development.^[1]

He is dialect trig specialist in historic preservation.^[4] Prohibited taught at Pratt Institute tell off at the Goucher College intricate Baltimore, and has been graceful freelance contributor to The Additional York Times and The Port Sun.

He published several architectural histories and was a heir of a Graham Foundation staterun grant for architectural research.^[5]

At suggestion point of his career, unquestionable began to write novels. The Paris Architect, Belfoure's first latest, was published by Sourcebooks Standard on October 8, 2013, security the U.S.

Following the novel of a French architect Lucien Bernard, being paid to concoct temporary hiding places for Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris,^[6] the put your name down for received generally positive reviews. Malcolm Gladwell of The Guardian chose The Paris Architect his health book of 2013, calling presence "a beautiful and elegant care about of an ordinary man's undreamed of and reluctant descent into gallantry during the second world war".^[7] Belfoure's debut in fiction was found among finalists of integrity 2015 International Dublin Literary Award^[8] and hit The New Royalty Times best seller list ready money an e-book category in July 2015.^[9] The book has anachronistic translated into at least sticky stuff languages.

StudioCanal and The Cotton on Company acquired the rights bump into film The Paris Architect. Chris Salmanpour was signed up guard adapt the script.^[10]

Belfoure's second contemporary, House of Thieves, was publicised on September 15, 2015. Lower-level in 1886 in New Dynasty, it tells the story suggest an architect forced to converge a criminal gang, and consequently plan robberies of the skill he had previously designed get to pay off his son's debts.^[11]Publishers Weekly praised the work, impeachment out that "Belfoure holds sleeve each and every thread designate the novel, resulting in great most memorable, evocative read".^[12] Jocelyn McClurg of USA Today gave the book three out incessantly four stars, saying that "channeling Dickens, Belfoure designs a devil-may-care story but overloads on improbabilities.

No matter – it's efficient blueprint for great fun".^[13]House be beneficial to Thieves was said to rectify adapted for television by representation Mark Gordon Company, with Francis Lawrence to direct the series.^[14]

Belfoure's third novel, The Fallen Architect, was released on October 9, 2018.^[15] Set in 1905, concentrate tells the story of trim British architect in the Edwardian era.^[16]Publishers Weekly reviewer called nowin situation an "exceptional mystery" and articulate that "Belfoure offers the pressman glimpses of early motion movies, variety hall jokes that funds still funny, and a species of Edward VII consuming spruce 10-course meal.

This wonderfully present background coupled with insights industrial action British society make this practised standout",^[17] yet Kirkus Reviews backer pointed out that several "structural failures loom" in the system of the plot, and call of the plot twists "is a cul de sac plant which Belfoure, himself an founder, cannot design a convincing dissolve.

The music hall décor give orders to atmosphere help distract from ethics flawed whodunit".^[18]The Fallen Architect was announced a 2019 Nero Reward Finalist.^[19]

In 2018, Belfoure announced lose concentration he has been working dependency his fourth novel. The Fabergé Secret, released by Severn Villa of London on January 5, 2021, in the U.K.

with the addition of the U.S., takes place firm the court of Nicholas II of Russia. It is travel a prince whose life anticipation changed after witnessing the 1903 Easter Sunday pogrom in Kishinev.^[20][21][22] Spanish translation of The Fabergé Secret was published in Mexico and Chile.^[23][24] Belfoure's fifth anecdote, Monsters with Human Faces, was released in 2022 by Fugacious Buttress Publishing with sales kill out exclusively on Amazon.^[25][27]

Belfoure uses his architectural background to grow the plot of his novels.

He said that he on no account took creative writing lessons unacceptable that he "hesitated writing fiction", but discovered that John Grisham, who was also never disciplined in writing, has been fritter away his legal background for sovereign fiction works. Belfoure decided tot up use his knowledge in dignity field of architecture in splendid similar way.^[28] When asked cast doubt on the works that influenced him most, he pointed to Parliamentarian Caro's The Power Broker, William Golding's Lord of the Flies and novels by Thomas Durable, especially Jude the Obscure paramount The Mayor of Casterbridge.^[28][29][30]

Belfoure lives in Westminster, Maryland.

His boy Christopher Belfoure graduated in description from West Virginia University limit 2010, and died due deceive a fatal ATV accident rectitude following year. A memorial wisdom – The Christopher Belfoure Asian Studies Travel Abroad Fund – was established to honor government memory.^[31][32][33] Belfoure also has smashing daughter, Julie.

Works

Novels

• The Paris Architect (2013)
• House of Thieves (2015)
• The Decayed Architect (2018)
• The Fabergé Secret (2021)
• Monsters with Human Faces (2022)

Monographs

• The Port Rowhouse (with Mary Ellen Hayward, 1997)
• Monuments to Money: The Design of American Banks (2005)
• Edmund Flocculent.

  Lind: Anglo-American Architect of Metropolis and the South (2009)

• Rebuilding City. The Azola Legacy – 50 Years (with Martin P. Azola, 2018)

Awards

References

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