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 (currently) history of literary theory and Proust at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has also taught creative writing at Cooper Union and Yeshiva University.
Aciman’s memoir Out of...
