Books by Hisham Matar

Add a: Month in Siena, Hisham Matar’s perspective on Classical art, confident/ understands it completely, but adds a new perspective to it because of his Muslim heritage. That’s what is significant about it. Also a sweet, unpretentious book.

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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies

The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is awarded annually to “a distinguished and appropriately documented” biography by an author from or based in the United States. The authors of winning books receive $15,000, and join a starry pantheon of great American writers. Here, we’ve put together a summary of all the Pulitzer-winning biographies since the turn of the millennium.

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