André Aciman
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André Aciman (born 1951 in Alexandria, Egypt) is an American essayist, memoirist and leading scholar of the works of Marcel Proust. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and The Harvard Review, as well as several volumes of The Best American Essays. Aciman is the author of the Whiting Award winning memoir Out of Egypt, an account of his childhood as a secular Jew growing up in Egypt during the 1950s and 1960s. Aciman holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University and currently teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
