Hero on Three Continents
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protagonist Henry Brown participating in events both cataclysmic and
personal, and interfacing with characters both famous and imaginary. From the
jazz age of the 1920s to the war-torn 1940s, to the international crises of oil
and terrorism in the 70s, this novel makes history intimate, the work of any
epic. The world needs a hero, and Henry Brown is such a man. Maitland-Lewis
demonstrates the importance of uncompromising research as well as the art of
presenting material in a fast-flowing, enjoyable, cant put it down style.
Stephen Maitland-Lewis
Stephen Maitland-Lewis is an award-winning author, a British attorney, and a former international investment banker. He has held senior executive positions in London, Kuwait, Paris, Munich, and on Wall Street prior to moving to California in 1991. He has owned a luxury hotel and a world-renowned restaurant and was also Director of Marketing of a Los Angeles daily newspaper.Maitland-Lewis is a jazz aficionado and a Board Trustee of the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York. In 2014, he received the Museum's prestigious Louie Award. A member of PEN, The Authors Guild, and The Dramatists Guild of America, Maitland-Lewis is also on the Executive Committee of the International Mystery Writers Festival. In addition, he is on the Advisory Board of the California Jazz Foundation and is a former Board member.He has published short stories in various magazines and Mr. Simpson and Other Short Stories is Maitland-Lewis' first collection of short stories. His novels have received numerous accolades and his most recent suspense thriller is Duped. His other novels include Hero on Three Continents; Emeralds Never Fade which won the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award for Historical Fiction and the 2011 Written Arts Award for Best Fiction; Ambition which was a 2013 USA Best Book Awards finalist and won first place for General Fiction in the 2013 Rebecca's Reads Choice Awards; and Botticelli's Bastard, a 2014 USA Best Book Awards finalist in three categories and winner of the Bronze Award in Best Regional Fiction (Europe) at the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Maitland-Lewis' short story, Mr. Simpson has recently been developed as a play and has been performed by noted theatre companies in Miami, New Orleans, and Beverly Hills. In January of 2016, Maitland-Lewis was sworn in as a Freeman of the City of London and admitted as a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of City Solicitors. In April of 2016, he became a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society (FRGS). He divides his time between Beverly Hills, CA, and New Orleans, LA.
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