R. M. Koster

Who is R. M. Koster?

Richard Morton Koster is an American novelist best known for the Tinieblas trilogy—The Prince, The Dissertation, Mandragon —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 and Glass Mountain, and, of In the Time of the Tyrants, a history of the Torrijos-Noriega dictatorship in Panama.