Rumaan Alam


Rumaan Alam is an American writer.

Early life and education

His parents emigrated from Bangladesh to the United States in the early 1970s. Alam, one of four siblings, was born in 1977 and grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C. His father being an architect and his mother being a paediatrician, he had an upper-middle class lifestyle while growing up in a mostly white area. He studied writing at Oberlin College.

Career

He is the author of four novels: Leave [the World Behind |Leave the World Behind], That Kind of Mother, Rich and Pretty, and Entitlement. He also hosts two podcasts for Slate.
Leave the World Behind was acclaimed by book critics and nominated for the 2020 National Book Award. It was later adapted as a 2023 film for Netflix with the same name.

Personal life

He and his husband, photographer David Land, whom he met on a blind date in 2003, adopted two boys.

Works

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