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Fiction: Reimagined Lives (2009): Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year. Jill Bialosky is the author of acclaimed novels and books of poetry including House Under Snow and her latest The Intruder. Also a respected poet and essayist, her work appears regularly in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and O, The Oprah Magazine.
Zoe Ferraris' first novel, Finding Nouf, was nominated for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction. She has an MFA from Columbia University and currently lives in San Francisco.
Joan Silber was a finalist for the National Book Award for Ideas of Heaven. Her newest novel is The Size of the World, nominated for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction. Silber teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.
Davod Wroblewski's first novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, is a finalist for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. He earned his master's degree from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and now lives in Colorado.
Zoe Ferraris' first novel, Finding Nouf, was nominated for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction. She has an MFA from Columbia University and currently lives in San Francisco.
Joan Silber was a finalist for the National Book Award for Ideas of Heaven. Her newest novel is The Size of the World, nominated for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction. Silber teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.
Davod Wroblewski's first novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, is a finalist for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. He earned his master's degree from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and now lives in Colorado.
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Published August 25, 2009
About the author
Zoë Ferraris
8 books423 followersZoë Ferraris moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War. She lived in a conservative Muslim community with her then-husband and his family, a group of Saudi-Palestinians.
Her debut novel, Finding Nouf (published as Night of the Mi'raj in the UK) was a national and international bestseller, winner of the LA Times Book Award for First Fiction, a B&N Discover pick, an ALE Alex Award winner, and was translated and published in 45 countries. Two follow-up novels, City of Veils and Kingdom of Strangers have been published in over 35 countries. The three books have been optioned for a television series.
She has an MFA from Columbia University and currently lives in San Francisco.
Her debut novel, Finding Nouf (published as Night of the Mi'raj in the UK) was a national and international bestseller, winner of the LA Times Book Award for First Fiction, a B&N Discover pick, an ALE Alex Award winner, and was translated and published in 45 countries. Two follow-up novels, City of Veils and Kingdom of Strangers have been published in over 35 countries. The three books have been optioned for a television series.
She has an MFA from Columbia University and currently lives in San Francisco.
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