I was born in Geneva, son of a Scottish mother and an American father who worked as a particle physicist at CERN, the international science laboratory. Moving to the suburbs of New York at a young age, I eventually went to Columbia University for a BA in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, then moved abroad to Vietnam where I taught English for a while in Ho Chi Minh City—or Saigon, as it’s affectionately known to the locals, despite having been officially renamed after the war. Eventually, I moved ...

I was born in Geneva, son of a Scottish mother and an American father who worked as a particle physicist at CERN, the international science laboratory. Moving to the suburbs of New York at a young age, I eventually went to Columbia University for a BA in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, then moved abroad to Vietnam where I taught English for a while in Ho Chi Minh City—or Saigon, as it’s affectionately known to the locals, despite having been officially renamed after the war. Eventually, I moved ...