Geoffrey E. Fox

Chicago-born and Harvard-educated, I worked as a community organizer in working-class barrios of Venezuela, later earning a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University and teaching in Latin America and the U.S. My experience in Latin America showed me the sparks that fly when cultures collide -- fireworks that light up A GIFT FOR THE SULTAN, about Muslim-Christian contacts in the final days of the Byzantine Empire.

My latest project is a novel about workers in the greatest urban revolution in Europe near the end of the 19th century, the Paris Commune of 1871, RABBLE! To be published in 2021.

Today I live in a fishing village in southern Spain with my wife, architect Susana Torre, who designed our seaside home. We travel a lot -- Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Meanwhile, here in Spain, I'm working on the next novel and learning to play Spanish guitar.