Diana Abu-Jaber was born in Upstate New York and lived
there until she was 7 when her family moved to Amman for two years.
Her father is Jordanian and her mother is American, and she has
lived between America and Jordan ever since. She received her
doctorate in English literature from the State University of New
York. She has taught literature and creative writing at the University
of Michigan, the University of Oregon, and UCLA.
Her first novel, Arabian Jazz, came out in 1993 from Harcourt
Brace. It won the Oregon Book Award and was a finalist for the
national PEN/Hemingway award. Her second novel, Memories of Birth,
will be published some time within the year. She won a National
Endowment for the Arts grant for this manuscript.
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