Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Micheline Aharonian Marcom (born 1968) is an American novelist born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, to an American father and an Armenian-Lebanese mother; she grew up in Los Angeles and spent childhood summers in Beirut. She is the author of eight novels, including a trilogy on the Armenian genocide (Three Apples Fell from Heaven, The Daydreaming Boy, Draining the Sea), and is a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia. Her works have earned awards such as the PEN/USA Award for Fiction, Whiting Award, and a finalist spot for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.