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The Oregonian runs an AP profile of Portlander Marc Acito, author of How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater.
For Acito, who also writes a humor column syndicated in gay publications nationwide, the book is the product of a life spent scribbling in journals while trying to claw his way up the ladder of stage success.
Although his father paid for college, Acito was kicked out of Carnegie Mellon’s theater program because of, he says, “artistic differences I thought I had talent and they didn’t think so.”
Acito also proves that you can open up a Fast Signs franchise, make sales calls, run the store, and still write a novel. And it doesn’t hurt if fellow Portlander Chuck Palahniuk recommends you to his agent.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.