Library Browsing

Check out the British Library’s digitized versions of twenty-one of Shakespeare’s plays in quarto form. (Quartos are cheap pamphlets, the size of the fourth of a sheet of printing paper. ) (Link via Maud.) While I was on the site, I checked out the BL’s extensive Arabic section, which contains some of the oldest available manuscripts.

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.