Dear Mr. Cornwell, my family are fans of your Sharpe stories. While reading your website I saw your biographical note about being refused “a green card”. I am a professor of immigration law and would love to know more about the basis for the refusal. My imagination runs wild with happy speculation such as you originally came to the U.S. on a Fullbright scholarship or you protested the Vietnam war. I hope you don’t mind my asking. Yours, Professor Lenni Benson, New York Law School