Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other honors. Akhtar is the author of the novels AMERICAN DERVISH, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year; HOMELAND ELEGIES, named one of 10 Best Books of 2020 by The New York Times; and THE RADIANCE. He has also authored the plays McNeal, Junk, Disgraced, The Who & The What, and The Invisible Hand. Akhtar was named the New York State Author in 2021.

Books by Ayad Akhtar

Homeland Elegies

by Ayad Akhtar - Fiction

A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, HOMELAND ELEGIES blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made.