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Andrew Rosenheim (born 23 August 1955) is a American novelist, critic and publisher living in Britain. He is the author of ten novels and a memoir, and is best known for his literary thrillers exploring politics and espionage.

Andrew Rosenheim
Born	(1955-08-23) August 23, 1955 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Alma mater	Yale University, University of Oxford
Occupation	Novelist
Website	www.andrewrosenheim.com

Biography

Rosenheim was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. He graduated from Yale University in English Literature, and came to the UK in 1977 as a Rhodes Scholar. As a student at Pembroke College, Oxford, he completed a degree in PPE, and an MLitt in English. He lives near Oxford.

Career

In the 1980s Rosenheim worked on early electronic publishing projects in the United States with Dick Brass, before joining Wang Laboratories in the UK, where he became involved in artificial intelligence and language-research projects. His second novel, Hands On (1993) was the first novel to explore AI-generated poetry.

From 1990, Rosenheim was Director of Electronic Publishing at Oxford University Press, spearheading the digital release of the Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM. He left to join Penguin Press as Managing Director in 1997, where he expanded the number of titles published under the Allen Lane imprint.

Following his involvement in the Ladbroke Grove rail crash, Rosenheim left Penguin in 2001 to write full-time.

In 2012, Rosenheim joined Amazon.com as the UK editor of Kindle Singles, the retailer's effort to sell fiction and nonfiction for its e-reader device. In 2018, Rosenheim moved to Audible Inc. as senior editor of Audible Original Publishing. He left Audible in 2019 to focus on writing full-time once more.

Rosenheim has written articles and obituaries, and reviewed books for The Times, The Guardian, The New York Times Book Review, The Independent, The Spectator, The Telegraph, The Tablet, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications.

Bibliography

Nessheim Trilogy

Historical espionage thriller series set in 1930s and 1940s America.

• Fear Itself (Hutchinson, 2011)
• The Informant (Hutchinson, 2013)
• The Accidental Agent (Hutchinson, 2016)

Other Novels

• The Tormenting of Lafayette Jackson (David R. Godine, 1988)
• Hands On (Heinemann: Mandarin, 1993)
• Stillriver (Hutchinson, 2004)
• Keeping Secrets (Hutchinson, 2006)
• Without Prejudice (Hutchinson, 2008)

• Holly Lester (Bloomsbury Reader, 2016)
• The Interpreter's Secret (No Exit Press, 2026)

Memoir

• The Secrets of Carriage H (Kindle Single, 2014)