Uzodinma Iweala, author and physician, 35, November 5. He attended St. Albans School, Washington D.C.; Harvard College, 2004, and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2011. His debut novel, “Beasts of No Nation”, is a formation of his thesis work (in creative writing) at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country. The book, published in 2005 and adapted as an award-winning film in 2015, was mentioned by Time Magazine, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Times, and Rolling Stone. While at Harvard, Iweala earned the Hoopes Prize and Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, 2004; Eager Prize for Best Undergraduate Short Story, 2003; and the Horman Prize for Excellence in Creative Writing, 2003. In 2006, he won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. In 2007, he was named as one ofGranta magazine’s 20 best young American novelists. He is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

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