Rumaan Alam (born 1977)[1] is an American writer.

[2] His parents emigrated from Bangladesh to the United States in the early 1970s.

Alam, one of four siblings, was born in 1977 and grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C. His father being an architect and his mother being a paediatrician, he had an upper-middle class lifestyle while growing up in a mostly white area.

[1] He is the author of four novels: Leave the World Behind, That Kind of Mother, Rich and Pretty, and Entitlement.

[6][7][8] This article about a novelist of the United States born in the 1970s is a stub.