Born in San Francisco, part of his childhood was spent in Turkey and Iran, as well as Washington, D.C., and Connecticut.
After graduating from Harvard in 1981[1] he lived in Paris,[citation needed] and then moved to London in 1988.
[1] Paul Micou's first novel The Music Programme (1989) is a comic satire on the comfortable lifestyles of overpaid international development workers.
Set in a fictional African country called Timbali, the novel was published to favourable reviews.
The New York Times called it "an excellent, accomplished example" of satirical fiction and compared his comic talents to those of Evelyn Waugh and William Boyd.