Rumaan Alam is the author of the novels Rich and Pretty, That Kind of Mother, and Leave the World Behind which is a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Bookforum, and the New Republic, where he is a contributing editor. He studied writing at Oberlin College and lives in New York with his family.
