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Brian Hall is an American author. Son of Louis Alton Hall and Peggy Smith Hall, he grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University from 1977 to 1981, graduating summa cum laude with an A.B. in English Literature.
From 1982 to 1984, Hall bicycled through western and eastern Europe, camping out most of the time. Based on his experiences in Eastern Europe, Hall wrote his first book, Stealing From a Deep Place, which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
His first novel, The Dreamers, tells the story of an American graduate student studying the Anschluss in Vienna, who gets into a rather tortured affair with an Austrian woman and her young, fatherless son.
Hall’s other novels include The Saskiad; I Should Be Extremely Happy In Your Company; and Fall of Frost. The Saskiad, a coming-of-age novel about a precocious and imaginative young girl, has been translated into 12 languages. I Should Be Extremely Happy In Your Company was named one of the best novels of the year by the Boston Globe, Salon Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. Fall of Frost was named one of the best novels of the year by the Boston Globe and the Washington Post.
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