A native of Washington, DC, Tatiana Blackington James writes about the intersection of the personal and the political, with a particular fondness for spy stories. She has written screenplays on Mata Hari for Universal Pictures, Albert Einstein for HBO, and the award-winning films, THE NARROWS and HOMOLOGIES. She recently adapted the novel, An Unexpected Guest, for British director John Strickland and is developing a limited series on the writer, Anaïs Nin, with French director François Velle.