“It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination.”

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.