Ariel Sabar

Ariel Sabar won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his debut book, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq (2008). His second book, Heart of the City (2011), was called a "beguiling romp" (New York Times) and an "engaging, moving and lively read" (Toronto Star). His third book, The Outsider (2014), is a Kindle Single. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Harper's, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, and Washingtonian. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Brown University and an award-winning former staff writer for the Providence (RI) Journal, Baltimore Sun and Christian Science Monitor, where he covered the 2008 presidential campaigns. In 2013, he won a national award for the best profile published in a city or regional magazine. He taught creative writing at The George Washington University and has lectured on the crafts of journalism and memoir at Brown, Johns Hopkins, The University of Maryland-College Park, and Georgetown. He has been interviewed about his books and articles on NPR, PBS NewsHour, the BBC World Service and C-SPAN's Book TV.