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JONATHAN CONLIN was born in New York and studied history at Oxford University, followed by graduate work at the Courtauld Institute and Cambridge. He has taught modern British history at the University of Southampton since 2006. His books include, The Nation's Mantelpiece: a history of the National Gallery, Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London and the Making of the Modern City, and a biography of Adam Smith.

Jonathan Maiullo first went to Armenia in 2008. He spent the next two years rambling over the country on foot whenever he wasn't teaching his English classes in Yeghegnadzor. He has since lived and worked as an English teacher in several countries, but has never quite been able to shake the memories of the the edenic world he found somewhere between Goris and Gyumri, which as invariably led him to visit many Armenian enclaves worldwide, if only to renew his familiarity with the musical language and search for the illusive boboki muraba (sweet green walnut preserves).