Flannery O’Connor’s childhood home in Savannah (where she lived from her birth to her teenage years) is getting back some of the author’s furniture. The home is also the site of a Spring lecture series. Another popular O’Connor site is Andalusia, the farm where she spent the last years of her life, raising peacocks and writing masterpieces of the short story form.
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.