Firoozeh Dumas is a New York Times bestselling Iranian American author and humorist. Her beloved memoir Funny in Farsi earned her a nomination for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and she was the first Iranian author to be nominated. She followed it with a second memoir, Laughing Without an Accent, and a middle-grade novel, It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal, and she’s been heard on NPR. She believes that everyone has a story to tell and that everyone’s story counts.
Firoozeh Dumas is a New York Times bestselling Iranian American author and humorist. Her beloved memoir Funny in Farsi earned her a nomination for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and she was the first Iranian author to be nominated. She followed it with a second memoir, Laughing Without an Accent, and a middle-grade novel, It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal, and she’s been heard on NPR. She believes that everyone has a story to tell and that everyone’s story counts.