André Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and distinguished professor of Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, director of The Writers’ Institute, and chair of The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and has taught at Princeton University and Bard College.

His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays. He is the author of Out of Egypt: A Memoir, Roman Year, Call Me by Your Name, Find Me, Eight White Nights, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations and Homo Irrealis. He’s the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.