In Conversation | Susan Orlean and Saïd Sayrafiezadeh | Granta Magazine

Susan Orlean and Saïd Sayrafiezadeh in Conversation

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh & Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean and Saïd Sayrafiezadeh discuss the difficulties of turning personal narratives into book-length projects.

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh was born in Brooklyn in 1968 to an Iranian father and a Jewish American mother. He grew up in Pittsburgh. He is an award-winning fiction writer, memoirist and playwright. His memoir When Skateboards Will Be Free received a Whiting Writers’ Award.

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