Mohsin Hamid is the author of four novels, 
  Moth Smoke
, 
  The Reluctant Fundamentalist
, 
  How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
, and 
  Exit West
, and a book of essays, 
  Discontent and Its Civilizations
.
His writing has been featured on bestseller lists, adapted for the cinema, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, selected as winner or finalist of twenty awards, and translated into thirty-five languages.
Born in Lahore, he has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California.