Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of four novels, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Other Americans, was a national best seller and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a full professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles. Her new book, a work of nonfiction called Conditional Citizens, was published by Pantheon in September 2020.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Not in This Together
Laila Lalami on what Rousseau has to teach us about the pandemic....

Radio Hour: Charlie Hebdo’s Courage Award and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami
Historian Jon Wiener explains why he supports the protest against The PEN American Center's recognition of Charlie Hebdo with their 2015 award for courage....

Chronicles of the Veil
The following article by Laila Lalami is from the new LARB Quarterly Journal: Winter 2014 issue. The Journal is now available ...

VIDEO: The Question of Nonfiction
Six writers talk about truthiness in nonfiction....

The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian....
