Hisham Matar is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return, which also received the PEN/Jean Stein Award and was selected as one of The New York Times's top ten books of the year. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Matar is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a life Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Art. Born in New York City to Libyan parents, he spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. He is a professor at Barnard College.
