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About Elif Batuman
American author, academic, and journalist
Elif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist. She writes fiction and nonfiction, and is known for The Possessed, The Idiot, and Either/Or. Her work spans memoir, the novel, and magazine journalism. She is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and her books include The Possessed (2010), The Idiot (2017), a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Either/Or (2022).
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- “When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding hi…”Elif Batuman
- “My family is not only not religious, but my parents are both - they're secularists. My father is actually an…”Elif Batuman
- “I think it is true that when we're older, we realize the way that people act is... you know, everyone's kind…”Elif Batuman
- “Even when I was very small, my mother treated me like a great novelist. She was like: 'Oh, I'm sitting at the…”Elif Batuman
Reflections: more sayings
- “I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.”Aaron Sorkin
- “The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.”P. J. O'Rourke
- “While the subject matter of my novels could not be further removed from the stuff I used to trot out at the C…”Mark Billingham
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Books by Elif Batuman
The Idiot
2017
The Possessed
2010