Gary Braver

Gary Braver is the internationally bestselling and award-winning author of ten critically acclaimed mysteries and thrillers including Elixir, Gray Matter and Flashback, which is the only thriller to have won a prestigious Massachusetts Book Award.

His novels have been translated into seventeen languages, and three have been optioned for movies, including Elixir by director Ridley Scott.  He is the only writer to have three books listed on the top-10 highest customer-rated thrillers on Amazon.com at the same time.

Under his own name, Gary Goshgarian, he is an award-winning English Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University where he taught courses in Modern Bestsellers, Science Fiction, Horror Fiction, and Fiction Writing.  He has taught fiction-writing workshops throughout the U. S. and Europe. He is also the author of five college writing textbooks and has written short stories, book reviews, and travel articles for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor and elsewhere.

He was born and raised in Hartford, CT and holds a BS degree in physics and an MA and PhD in English. Before settling into college teaching, he worked as a project physicist. An avid bicyclist, hiker, and scuba diver, he lives with his wife outside of Boston.