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Lesley Hazleton

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About the Author

Lesley Hazleton is an award-winning writer whose work focuses on the intersection of religion, history, and politics. She reported on the Middle East from Jerusalem for more than a dozen years, and has written for TimeThe New York TimesThe New York Review of BooksHarper’sThe Nation, and The New Republic, among others. Her most recent books are Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto, The First Muslim, and After the Prophet, which was a finalist for a PEN Center USA Literary Award, and she is the recipient of The Stranger’s Genius in Literature Award. Hazleton lives in Seattle.

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