Author

Books by Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi was born in Tehran in 1955, the daughter of a former mayor of Tehran. She studied literature in the United States and England before returning to Iran, where she taught at the University of Tehran and Allameh Tabatabai University until her resignation in 1995. She emigrated to the United States in 1997. Reading Lolita in Tehran, published in 2003, spent over a hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. She is a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and has written several subsequent books.