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About Rumaan Alam
American writer
Rumaan Alam is an American writer, best known for his novel Leave the World Behind. He writes fiction with a contemporary, observant edge, and his work has reached a wide readership through Leave the World Behind, which became his best-known book. Beyond that title, he is known for writing about present-day life and the pressures that shape it.
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- “Usually, when you see clothes on a model, by some transitive property, that garment is imbued with her beauty.”Rumaan Alam
- “Truly smart people and truly smart dressers share one thing in common: They make it look easy.”Rumaan Alam
Explore Empathy
- “Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better at it.”Simon Baron-Cohen
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- “I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.”Hope Jahren
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Books by Rumaan Alam
Leave the World Behind
2020
Rich and pretty
2016
That kind of mother
2018