Author guide

Elif Batuman Books in Order

Elif Batuman is an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and journalist. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, a collection of literary essays, and the novels The Idiot and Either/Or. Her fiction has been recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.