L.A. Endowment

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Author Carolyn See has established a $100,000 endowment at UCLA for the study of Los Angeles and Southern California literature.

See’s endowment will allow graduate students to consider other possibilities in their study of literature beyond just Renaissance or New England literature, [English chair Thomas Wortham] said.
“We have tended so much, in California and Los Angeles, to look elsewhere that sometimes we miss the brilliance in our own backyard,” he said.

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.