One month before 9/11, Hamid moved to London, where he watched the events of 9/11 unfold on television “with horror and fear” (Aitkenhead). He began writing the first draft of The Reluctant Fundamentalist in 2000, finishing the draft in the summer of 2001. Hamid’s first novel, Moth Smoke, was published in 2000. From there, he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey in New York City. After graduating from Princeton in 1993, Hamid attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1997. At the age of nine, Hamid returned to Pakistan, where he remained until he attended Princeton at the age of 18.Īt Princeton, Hamid studied under Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison, drafting his first novel while in Toni Morrison’s workshop. Born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1971, Hamid made his first move when he was three, accompanying his father to the United States so that his father could attend graduate school at Stanford. His young life was almost evenly split between the United States and Pakistan. Mohsin Hamid has spent his life in a state of relocation. Home > Publication and Reception Histories > Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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