A novelist and translator, Sam Taylor is the author of The Republic of Trees, The Amnesiac, The Island at the End of the World, and The Ground Is Burning. He has translated more than a dozen novels from the French, including Laurent Binet's acclaimed HHhH and the bestselling The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker. Born in Nottinghamshire, England, and a former journalist for the Observer, Taylor lived with his family in France before moving to the United States.