Mohsin Hamid is the author of two novels: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Moth Smoke (2000). His fiction has been translated into 30 languages, received numerous awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has contributed essays and short stories to publications such as the Guardian, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Dawn, the New York Review of Books, Granta, and the Paris Review. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he spent part of his childhood in California, studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and has since lived between Lahore, London, and New York.