Adib Khorram
Biography
Adib Khorram
Adib Khorram is the author of DARIUS THE GREAT IS NOT OKAY, which earned the William C. Morris Debut Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature, and a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor, as well as a multitude of other honors and accolades. His follow-up, DARIUS THE GREAT DESERVES BETTER, received three starred reviews, was an indie bestseller and received a Stonewall Honor. He also is the author of KISS & TELL, I'LL HAVE WHAT HE'S HAVING and the picture book SEVEN SPECIAL SOMETHINGS: A Nowruz Story.
When he isn’t writing, you can find him learning to do a Lutz jump, practicing his handstands or steeping a cup of oolong. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where people don’t usually talk about themselves in the third person.
Adib Khorram