885. Rumaan Alam

Rumaan Alam is the author of the bestselling novel LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND, available in trade paperback from Ecco. Get your copy here: https://bookshop.org/a/20530/97800626...

LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND is now a major motion picture, directed by Sam Esmail and starring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, and Mahershala Ali.

Alam's other books are Rich and Pretty and That Kind of Mother. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Bookforum, and the New Republic, where he is a contributing editor. He studied writing at Oberlin College and lives in New York with his family.

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