Ayad Akhtar: The Pulitzer-Winning Writer Behind Disgraced

Ayad Akhtar, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

Ayad Akhtar is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter best known for winning the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Disgraced. His work examines identity, religion, family, money, power, and the changing experience of life in the United States. Across novels such as American Dervish and Homeland Elegies, along with plays including Disgraced, Junk, The … Read more