Rumaan Alam (born 1977)[1] is an American writer.[2]
Early life and education
His parents emigrated from Bangladesh to the United States in the early 1970s. Alam, one of four siblings, was born in 1977 and grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C. His father being an architect and his mother being a paediatrician, he had an upper-middle class lifestyle while growing up in a mostly white area.[3] He studied writing at Oberlin College.[2]
