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I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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