Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid was born in 1971 in Lahore, Pakistan. He attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School, worked for several years as a management consultant in New York and as a freelance journalist in Lahore, and now lives mainly in London. His first novel, Moth Smoke, was published in 2000. His second, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, was published in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.