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R. M. Koster
Richard Morton Koster (1934) is an American novelist best known for the Tinieblas trilogy—''The Prince'' (1972), ''The Dissertation'' (1975), ''Mandragon'' (1979)—set in an imaginary Central American republic much like Panama, the author's home for many years. He is the author, besides, of two other novels, ''Carmichael's Dog'' (1992) and ''Glass Mountain'' (2001), and (with Panamanian man of letters Guillermo Sánchez Borbón), of ''In the Time of the Tyrants'' (1990), a history of the Torrijos-Noriega dictatorship in Panama.
==Background==
Koster was born in Brooklyn, New York, attended Poly Prep, and has degrees from Yale and New York Universities. He taught English at the National University of Panama, and from 1964 to 2001 was a member of the faculty of the Florida State University, serving at its Panama branch. He has lectured in English and Spanish at universities in the United States and Latin America. In 2003 he was a visiting professor at Southern Methodist University.
Koster has had parallel careers in politics and journalism. He was a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1967 to 1996, served on many Democratic panels, and wrote presidential debate copy for Senator John Kerry in 2004.〔() Debate copy for Kerry〕 During the 1960s and '70s he reported from Panama for the Copely News Service and ''Newsweek'' magazine. He has reported more recently for the ''New York Times'' and has contributed prolifically to the Spanish language press in Panama. He was interviewed on National Public Radio about his book, ''In the Time of the Tyrants'' 〔() Radio interview〕
Koster went to Panama as a soldier in the late 1950s and has lived there since. His wife, Otilia Tejeira, was a soloist with Panama’s National Ballet and has had a subsequent career as a human rights monitor. They have two children and three grandchildren.
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