Laila Lalami is the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits ; Secret Son ; and The Moor's Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The Moor's Account was also on the Man Booker Prize longlist and on several best books of the year lists, including the Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews and NPR.
Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Nation, Harper's Magazine, the Guardian and the New York Times. She is the recipient of a British Council Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.
Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Nation, Harper's Magazine, the Guardian and the New York Times. She is the recipient of a British Council Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.
