Byron Ayanoglu

Byron Ayanoglu is a writer of many hues. Memoirist, travel columnist, cookbook author, film-scenarist, playwright, restaurant reviewer, novelist. He has published the perennial best-selling Thai cookbook Simply Thai Cooking (Random House, 1995; reissued by Robert Rose, 1996 and re-released three times). His most recently published novel is A Traveler's Tale (2013). Prior to that, Istanbul to Montr�al, was simultaneously published in a Turkish version in Istanbul; a very popular memoir Crete...See more

Byron Ayanoglu is a writer of many hues. Memoirist, travel columnist, cookbook author, film-scenarist, playwright, restaurant reviewer, novelist. He has published the perennial best-selling Thai cookbook Simply Thai Cooking (Random House, 1995; reissued by Robert Rose, 1996 and re-released three times). His most recently published novel is A Traveler's Tale (2013). Prior to that, Istanbul to Montr�al, was simultaneously published in a Turkish version in Istanbul; a very popular memoir Crete on the Half Shell (HarperCollins, 2004; published internationally; optioned for film), and a well-received satirical romance Love in the Age of Confusion (DC Books, 2002). Widely traveled, Byron speaks five languages and lives in the Laurentians in the summer and somewhere snow-free in winter. See less