George Plimpton has died. The multitalented Plimpton was a journalist, a writer, a football player, a boxer, a trapeze artist, and an actor. His legacy, though, will unarguably be the Paris Review. I don’t think I’ll look forward to my rejections from them in quite the same way.
It’s been one of those weeks. I think I might take an early break today.
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.