Nicolas Kublicki was born in Los Angeles, California of a French mother and a Polish father (in 1998, Israel's Yad Vashem Foundation awarded his father the Righteous Gentile Medal for hiding and saving a Jewish woman during the Nazi occupation of Poland in World War II). While searching for his first law firm job after law school, he was watching a television documentary about the history of the diamond trade on PBS and thought: "I have to write a novel about this." He was instantly hooked and started researching and writing The Diamond Conspiracy. Nick lives in LA with his wife Molly and their daughters Ava and Juliette.