Gregory DowlingGregory Dowling grew up in Bristol, UK and studied English Literature at Oxford. He now teaches American Literature at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He published four thrillers in the 1980s and 1990s and then devoted himself to academic wok and translation. He returned to fiction in 2015, with two novels set in 18th-century Venice, Ascension and The Four Horsemen. Read More Read Less