Zachary Lazar

Zachary Lazar is the author of five previous books, including the novel Sway , the memoir Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder , and the novel I Pity the Poor Immigrant , which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2014. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the 2015 John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for "a writer in mid-career whose work has demonstrated consistent excellence." Lazar lives in...See more

Zachary Lazar is the author of five previous books, including the novel Sway , the memoir Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder , and the novel I Pity the Poor Immigrant , which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2014. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the 2015 John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for "a writer in mid-career whose work has demonstrated consistent excellence." Lazar lives in New Orleans, where he is on the creative writing faculty at Tulane University. See less