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Laila Lalami Oct. 15-17, 2015
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Laila Lalami is an author, short story writer, and essayist who was born and raised in Morocco. She has studied at Universite Mohammed-V in Rabat, University College in London, and the University of Southern California where she currently teaches creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. Her latest book, The Moor’s Account was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was recently long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Topics of her writing often include race, immigration, and national identity, and her work has been published in The Nation, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. Her longer works include Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, which is a collection of short stories about a group of immigrants attempting to move from Morocco to Europe in hope of a better life; Secret Son, which explores questions of identity and class; and The Moor’s Account, a fictional account of the life of the first black slave in America.