Namwali Serpell
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About the Author
Namwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in New York. Her debut novel, The Old Drift, won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her second novel, The Furrows, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award and selected as one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year. Her book of criticism, Stranger Faces, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. A recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, the Caine Prize for African Writing, and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, she is a professor of English at Harvard University.