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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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- “There's only one Sinatra. But don't forget that there's only one Sinatra Jr., too.”Frank Sinatra Jr.
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- “Sometimes is necessary to fall from grace to teach indecent.”Ahmed Akram Mirza
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Books by Elif Batuman
The Idiot
2017
The Possessed
2010