Rumaan Alam

Rumaan Alam (born August 9, 1977) is an American writer best known for his bestselling novel Leave the World Behind.

Early life and education His parents emigrated from Bangladesh to the United States in the early 1970s. Alam, one of four siblings, was born in 1977 and grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C. His father being an architect and his mother being a paediatrician, he had an upper-middle class lifestyle while growing up in a mostly white area. He studied writing at Oberlin College. and nominated for the 2020 National Book Award. It was later adapted as a 2023 film for Netflix with the same name.

Personal life He and his husband, photographer David Land, whom he met on a blind date in 2003, adopted two boys. Getaway (2022)