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The reluctant fundamentalist full book6/10/2023 Hamid writes for dozens of magazines, journals, and newspapers, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review. His third and most recent novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, was released in 2013. He didn't complete another novel until 2007, when he published The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which reflects his experiences at Princeton. Moth Smoke was a success in the United States and a huge hit in Pakistan (it was even adapted as a TV miniseries), enabling Hamid to devote himself to writing full-time. In his spare time, he worked on a novel he had begun writing as an undergraduate at Princeton in 2000, he published this work, Moth Smoke. He attended Harvard Law School, but found it boring. At the age of 18, he attended Princeton University, where he studied with the famous writers Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates, and graduated summa cum laude (with highest honors). After the age of nine, Hamid returned to Pakistan with his family and attended Aitchison College, a highly prestigious boarding school founded in the late 19th century. Mohsin Hamid was born in Pakistan, but he spent much of his childhood in Palo Alto, California, while his father pursued a PhD at Stanford University.
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