Carla Power

Carla Power
Born
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Alma mater
OccupationAuthor

Carla Power is an American author.[1]

Early life and education

As a child, Power lived in St. Louis, Missouri and also in Iran, India, Afghanistan, Egypt and Italy as her family moved around. She studied at Yale University, and gained an M.Phil. in modern Middle Eastern studies from St Antony's College, Oxford and a degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[2]

Career

Her book If the Oceans Were Ink was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize general nonfiction finalist.[3]

Her book Home, Land, Security was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist.[4]

Books

  • If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran (2015)
  • Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism (2021)[a]

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Notes
  1. ^ Briefly reviewed in the September 27, 2021 issue of The New Yorker, p.83.

References

  1. ^ "Pulitizer Prize Finalist Carla Power discusses new book "Home, Land, Security" & Deradicalization with St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum and LBB". St Louis. September 2, 2021.
  2. ^ "About". Carla Power. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Finalist: If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran, by Carla Power (Henry Holt)". The Pulitzer Prizes.
  4. ^ "Pulitzer Prizes 2022: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists". The New York Times. May 9, 2022.
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