Monica Ali
Monica Ali was born on October 20, 1967 in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Her father was a Bangladeshi man who worked as a teacher, and her mother was English and worked as a counselor. The interracial marriage between Ali's parents was controversial. In 1971, civil war erupted in East Pakistan. Ali was 3 years old when her family moved to England in 1971. They settled in Bolton (near Manchester), where Ali attended school. She went on study at Oxford, where she graduated from Wadham...