Elif Batuman was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. She now lives in San Francisco. Her articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and the literary journal n+1. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundaton Writers’ Award and teaches at Stanford University.
In 2011 Elif Batuman was awarded the first-ever Terry Southern Prize for Humor for ‘My Twelve-Hour Blind Date, with Dostoevsky’, her five-part account of a marathon theatrical performance on Governor’s Island. The series appeared last July on The Paris Review Daily.
Author photograph © Mikhail Lemkhin
Books by Elif Batuman
