Jeffrey Hobbs

Jeff Hobbs studied English literature at Yale University, and graduated in 2002. He won several important writing prizes for undergraduate work, including the Willets Prize for fiction. After graduating, Hobbs lived in Tanzania and worked for the African Rainforest Conservancy. His first novel, the story of four recent Yale graduates called The Tourists, came out in 2007, and became a national bestseller. In 2014, he published his first work of nonfiction, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace. The book was critically acclaimed, and won several prizes. Hobbs lives in Los Angeles with his wife.