Elif Batuman
Biography
Elif Batuman
A self-described “6-foot-tall first-generation Turkish woman,” Elif Batuman was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The London Review of Books, and other publications. Now living in San Francisco, she is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and teaches at Stanford University. Visit her web site, http://us.macmillan.com/thepossessed.
Elif Batuman
