Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010. She has written about subjects including Epictetus, dung beetles, a Turkish village’s women’s-theatre group, and the history of psychological testing. Her first novel, “The Idiot,” was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Her essay collection, “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them,” was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University. Her latest novel, “Either/Or,” the sequel to “The Idiot,” was published in 2022.
