Namwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in New York. Her debut novel, THE OLD DRIFT, won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her second novel, THE FURROWS, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and was selected as one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year. Her book of essays, STRANGER FACES, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. She is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, the Caine Prize for African Writing, and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. She is a professor of English at Harvard University.

Books by Namwali Serpell

On Morrison

by , and - Literary Criticism, Nonfiction

The Furrows

by , and - Fiction

The Old Drift

by , and - Fiction, Historical Fiction