Elif Batuman Books in Order

Elif Batuman is a distinguished American author, academic, and journalist. Born in New York City to Turkish parents, she grew up in New Jersey. Batuman graduated from Harvard College and earned her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University, where she taught. As writer-in-residence at Koç University, she continues to nurture her writing talent. Her undergraduate studies in Uzbek language in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, greatly influenced her writing. Her dissertation, "The Windmill and the Giant: Double-Entry Bookkeeping in the Novel," is a masterpiece that explores the process of social research and solitary construction undertaken by novelists. Batuman has received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (2007) and published her acclaimed debut book, "The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them," in 2010. Her writing appears in esteemed publications such as The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and n+1.