About Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman is an American author, academic and journalist who has written a memoir titled The Possessed (2010), the novel The Idiot (2017) that was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Either/Or (2022). She also writes for The New Yorker.
![“From Oleg Cassini's memoirs... I learned that Cassini had also suffered from insomnia. One night, he woke from uneasy dreams with the opening of Dante's Inferno setting off 'a clamorous tumult in [his] subconscious: "Midway the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark forest."' When I read…” quote by Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c51/elif-batuman-2172_midlife-crisis_from-oleg-cassini-s-memoirs-i-learned-th_1634344.jpg)
