Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1951, André Aciman is the author of five acclaimed books: the Whiting Award-winning memoir Out of Egypt; the novels Call Me by Your Name, which won a Lambda Literary Award, and Eight White Nights; and two collections of essays, False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory and Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere. He edited the anthologies Letters of Transit and The Proust Project. His writing has been translated into many languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Granta, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler. His nonfiction has been included in several issues of Best American Essays, and a short story that ran in The Paris Review was shortlisted for a National Magazine Award. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from The New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Aciman is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at The CUNY Graduate Center, where he is currently chair of the Ph. D. Program in Comparative Literature and founder and director of The Writers’ Institute at the Graduate Center. He lives in New York.