Sapan Saxena (born April 5, 1985) is an Indian author, best known for his novels Finders, Keepers, UNNS-The Captivation and The Tenth Riddle Early life and education Sapan was born on April 5, 1985 at Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. His father, Umesh, is a senior bank officer with UCO Bank. He did his Engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad Sapan started writing blogs in the year 2011 and his blog was covered by national mainstream media outlets like The Times of India on a couple of occasions. He often credits his father and the readers of his blog for pushing him into the world of fiction novels Career As Software Engineer He has worked for 14 years in the software industry and currently works with UKG As an author Sapan then started working on his novel Finders, Keepers which was launched in January 2015 at Bhubaneshwar. The launch as covered by The New Indian Express and was attended by Padma Shri Prafulla Kar and eminent novelist Santanu Kumar Acharya and noted ghazal singer Subhashish Panigrahi. The book had another launch at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology during the National level cultural festival of the college, Culrav which was attended by Shri Girdhar Malviya. The Delhi launch of the book was attended by Bharatiya Janta Party MP from Meerut, Shri Rajendra Agrawal. The Hindu covered the book in its Friday Fever section. The book received mostly positive reviews from eminent journalists and reviewers. Samata Dey from IndiaCafe said "Sapan offered a very interesting story, where not only the plot but the atmosphere and the scenario the plot is based in, becomes the primal focus too. Some simple yet very confusing questions are asked in the different parts of the book which are related to the famous historical figures which is mind boggling". Sapan's 2nd novel's launch was covered by Chandigarh chapter of Indian Express and Dainik Bhaskar. UNNS- The Captivation is published by Inspire India publishers. Sapan mentions "The book is a romantic espionage thriller with a basic theme of the Sufi-inspired seven stages of love" when asked about the book. He claims the title UNNS is actually the 2nd stage of love as per Sufi traditions. In an interview with UC News, Sapan mentions "UNNS is a romantic espionage thriller.". In another interview with The News Now, he calls the book "A story with a lot