Find Me (Aciman) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—January 2, 1951
• Where—Alexandria, Egypt; Rome, Italy
• Education—B.A., Lehman College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
• Awards—Whiting Award, Lambda Literary Award
• Currently—lives in New York, New York, USA


Andre Aciman (as-i man) is an Egyptian-Italian-American writer. He is the author of several novels, including Call Me by Your Name (2007) and its sequel Find Me (2020).  In 1995, he published his memoir Out of Egypt, which won the Whiting Award, and which The New York Times compared to the styles of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Lawrence Durrell, and Anton Chekkov.

Background and career
Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and raised in a multi-lingual family that spoke primarly French but also Italian, Greek, Ladino, and Arabic. His parents were Sephardic Jews, of Turkish and Italian origin, whose families had settled in Alexandria in 1905. Because increased tensions with Israel put Jews in a precarious position, his family left Egypt in 1965.

After his father purchased Italian citizenship for the family, Aciman moved with his mother and brother to Rome while his father moved to Paris. In 1968 the family moved to New York City. From there, Aciman attended Lehman College. He went on to earn an M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University.

Currently, Aciman is distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust. He previously taught creative writing at New York University and French literature at Princeton and Bard College. He lives with his wife and three sons in New York. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retreived 4/9/2020.)