Nathaniel Hutner grew up in Middlebury, Vermont and Princeton, New Jersey. He holds classical diplomas from Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard and has done graduate work at Göttingen and Oxford. He has also been a dishwasher, a lunch cook, a stableboy, and an employee at the Strand Bookstore. For twenty years he worked on Wall Street. He now writes full-time and lives in Middlebury.