Paul Watkins (born January 1, 1964)[1] is an American author who currently lives with his wife, Cathy, and two children, Emma and Oliver, in Hightstown, New Jersey.
He attended the Dragon School, Oxford, Eton[2] and Yale University.
His recollections of his time at the Dragon School and Eton form his autobiographical work Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England (1993).
[3] Recently Watkins has begun writing a series of novels under the pseudonym Sam Eastland.
His new detective series is set in Stalinist Russia with Inspector Pekkala as protagonist.