Creator Bio
André Aciman
b. 1951
Born in Alexandria, Egypt, André Aciman spent his late childhood years in Italy and France. Specializing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European literature, he is a professor of comparative literature at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Aciman’s works explore the themes of identity, home, and exile.
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Out of Egypt
Egyptian Jewish American author André Aciman describes celebrating his last Seder in Egypt with his bags packed to leave his homeland for good.