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Today’s news brought this item which tells of how Alexandre Dumas’s remains have been moved to the Pantheon (where Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, and other luminaries are interred.) This being the 21st century, there was a mini-controversy about the move, sparked by allegations he was a womanizer (gasp!) and has used helpers (Cela, where are you?). The news story brought back fond memories of sitting on my bed reading Le Comte de Monte Cristo when I was a kid (and loving every word of it.)
Elsewhere, the Guardian has an interesting story on Graham Greene. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show how the FBI spied on Greene and labeled him “anti-American”. Greene’s book The Quiet American has been recently adapted for the big screen (by Philip Noyce) and released by Miramax. Can you imagine if someone wrote a novel kind of like The Quiet American, but about current U.S. policies in the Bush administration’s “war on terror”? Anyone have an extra “anti-American” label lying around?

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.