Not everyone’s American, after all (I’m not and purely based on the name, I assume he is/was?). I’ve vaguely heard the name before but know nothing else - not even a positive/negative impression.

Sometimes, it sort of depends - I just recently read the Mrs Harris series and it was so immersed in British class culture that I had to look up the author because the book blurb said he was American and I wanted to see if I could understand where all that had come from (no apparent connection whatsoever).

Ditto Naomi Novik, reading the Temeraire series and have read the Scholomance, had a quick search as I was sure she must be English but no - deeply American as is her family and her husband. Guess she just does a lot of research.

Beyond having a specific reason like that though I’m not overly bothered to know much more about them - it’s their stories I want

Ah I hadn’t read any of the Tiffany books until lockdown 2020. I’m so glad I left myself that little treat for such a weird and isolating time, I would have enjoyed them anyway but it hit different.

I actually finished recently the biography by Rob, so silly because I know how it ends and yet wasn’t really prepared for it. The descriptions of his deterioration are very strong, and you can’t help but come away with a deep understanding of how much that disease takes from everyone it touches.