Andre Aciman
André Aciman is an Egyptian-born, American essayist and novelist. He grew up in a multilingual, Jewish family attending English language schools in Alexandria and Rome before moving to New York City in 1968. He obtained a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Lehman College in 1973 and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 1988. He went on to teach creative writing at New York University, French literature at Princeton and Bard College, and...