Tamim Ansary

Tamim Ansary is an Afghan American author whose work has been translated into 14 languages including Korean, Lithuanian, Turkish, Dutch, and Portuguese. He writes narrative history, memoir, fiction, and cultural commentary. His books include The Invention of Yesterday, a history of the world, The Widow's Husband, a historical novel, and Road Trips, a memoir. During the late sixties and early seventies, he lived in Portland, Oregon, where he worked for The Scribe, a weekly newspaper of which, he claims, no record survives