Peter Pouncey

Peter Pouncey was born in Tsingtao, China, of English
parents. At the end of World War II, after several
dislocations and separations, the family reassembled in
England, and Pouncey was educated there in boarding schools
and at Oxford. A classicist, former dean of Columbia
College, and president emeritus of Amherst College, Peter
Pouncey lives in New York City and northern Connecticut with
his wife. This is his first novel.