Masoud Torabi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1990. While growing up in the rural streets of Tehran, Masoud developed an urge to write short stories dealing with romance, family and social issues, and various societal topics. It was not until Masoud was introduced to the James Cameron classic, Titanic, in 1997 that his path to fiction writing was put front and center. "Titanic, especially the scene where Rose was being lowered in the lifeboat and she was seeing the love of her life for perhaps the last time was so heartbreaking and life-changing for me that I promised myself at that point I want t...