Mohsin Hamid grew up in Lahore, attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and worked as a management consultant in New York and London. He is the author of two internationally bestselling novels translated into over twenty-five languages. The first, Moth Smoke, won a Betty Trask award, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award. The second, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, won several prizes including the Anisfield-Wolf Award and the Ambassador Book Award, and was shortlisted for many others including the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.