Hundred Foot Journey (Morais)

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1959-60
• Where—Portugal
• Raised—Switzerland
• Education—B.A., Sarah Lawrence College
• Currently—lives in New York City, New York USA


Richard C. Morais is an American financial journalist and author, who was born in Portugal and raised in Switzerland. He spent 17 years in London working for Forbes magazine and, since 2003, has lived in New York City. Currently Morais is is the editor of Penta, a Barron’s website and quarterly magazine.

After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, New York), Morais began work as a news intern for PBS's The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, eventually selling freelance film features to the New York Times. In 1986 he moved to London as Forbes magazine's European correspondent and later its European bureau chief. Over the years, he won three London-based Business Journalist of the Year Awards for his international coverage.

Morais published his first book, the biographay Pierre Cardin: The Man Who Became a Label, in 1991. The Hundred-Foot Journey, his first novel, came out in 2010 and was adapted to film in 2014. His second novel, Buddhaland Brooklyn, also came out in 2014. (Adapted from the author's website.)