André Aciman is a New York Times bestselling novelist, Whiting Award-winning American memoirist, and essayist originally from Alexandria, Egypt best-known for his book Call Me by Your Name, which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film.

His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Town & Country, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler, and Granta as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays.

Aciman is a distinguished professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. In addition to Call Me by Your Name, he is the author of Out of Egypt: A Memoir, False Papers, Alibis, Eight White Nights, Harvard Square, and Enigma Variations. He is the co‑author and editor of Letters of Transit and of The Proust Project.

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