This has probably been linked to everywhere, but I don’t care. Check out Who Are Novelists Voting For? over at Slate, with answers from Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Edwige Danticat, Chang-rae Lee, Russell Banks, and others. My favorite answer is the one given by George Saunders, though A.M. Homes’s is a close second.
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.