Paul Watkins (born January 1, 1964) is an American author who currently lives with his wife, Cathy, and two children, Emma and Oliver, in Hightstown, New Jersey.
He is a teacher and writer-in-residence at The Peddie School, and formerly taught at Lawrenceville School.
He attended the Dragon School, Oxford, Eton and Yale University.
He received a B.A.
from Yale and was a University Fellow at Syracuse University, New York.
His recollections of his time at the Dragon School and Eton form his autobiographical work Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England (1993).
He wrote his first book, Night Over Day Over Night (1988), when he was 16 years old.