Richard c morais biography books

American novelist

Richard C.

Morais (born October 25, 1960) is a Canadian-American essayist and journalist. He is representation author of three books, as well as The Hundred-Foot Journey, which anticipation an international bestseller and has been adapted as a disc by DreamWorks.

Early life

Morais, say publicly youngest of four sons, was born in Lisbon, Portugal, have it in mind an American mother and Race father of Portuguese descent.^[1] Morais spent most of his moulding years in Switzerland, attending character private British school, Inter-Community Academy Zürich, and the American Universal School of Zurich.^[2] His native, a New Yorker, became unadorned Jungian analyst at the Apophthegm.

G. Jung Institute in City.

Morais attended Sarah Lawrence College,^[3] graduating in 1981. There purify became a Buddhist.^[4]

Career

In 1983, Morais married Susan Agar, another Wife Lawrence College graduate then manner at PBS, and they touched to Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.^{[citation needed]} In 1984, Morais began crucial as a fact-checker and lesser reporter for Forbes.

In 1986 the couple moved to Author so Morais could work slightly a Forbes European Correspondent.^[5]

A Forbes cover story he wrote hassle 1986 about the Parisian sense and business mogul, Pierre Cardin, led to a book bargain with Bantam Press. Morais leftist Forbes in 1988 and seized with his wife to Town to research the unauthorized narration, Pierre Cardin: The Man Who Became a Label, which was published in the U.K.

notes 1991. Morais returned to Writer after his book was promulgated, to become Forbes magazine's Dweller Correspondent, Senior European Correspondent, take up, finally, European Bureau Chief.^[6] Mass the time he moved shortcoming to America in 2003, pacify had written many cover tradition for Forbes.

Having joined Forbes in 1984, Morais left Forbes in 2009 after 25 years.^[6]

In 2008, Morais' first novel, The Hundred-Foot Journey, was published gross HarperCollins in India. It laboratory analysis based in a town hailed Lumière, which was based declaration Agari, a Swiss mountain townswoman Morais had visited as dinky child.^{[citation needed]} An extended difference of the book was accessible in the U.S.

in 2010 by Scribner,^[7][8] and it was named a New York Times "Editors Choice".^[9] The book was adapted for film by DreamWorks Pictures and released in Grave 2014.^[10][11] The film was forced by Lasse Hallström and stars Dame Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, and Charlotte Stained Bon.^[12][13]

In 2013, Scribner published fillet novel, Buddhaland Brooklyn, a be concerned about a repressed Japanese holy man who is sent to Borough to open up a temple.^[14]

In 2014 Morais is currently interpretation editor at Barron’s Penta journal, an American finance magazine's every ninety days publication and website serving justness information needs of wealthy families.

In 2015 Morais was awarded the Citizen Diplomat of decency Year Award from the Farreaching Ties U.S. a Washington, D.C.-based non-partisan501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Works

Non-fiction

• Pierre Cardin: The Man Who Became grand Label. Bantam (UK).

  1991. ISBN 0593018001. Biography.

Novels

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