U-Elif Batuman (owazalwa ngo-1977) ungumbhali waseMelika, isifundiswa nentatheli.Nanguya umlobi wezincwadi ezimbili: a memoir, abakhwelwe, futhi inoveli I Idiot , okuyinto kowamanqamu ngokuba 2018 Pulitzer uMklomelo Fiction .UBatuman ungumbhali wabasebenzi beNew Yorker. U-Elif Batuman wazalelwa eNew York City kubazali baseTurkey, futhi wakhulela eNew Jersey.Wathweswa iziqu eHarvard College, futhi wathola iziqu zobudokotela ngezincwadi zokuqhathanisa ezivela eStanford University.Ngenkathi esafunda isikole, uBatuman wafunda isi -Uzbek eSamarkand, e- Uzbekistan.Umbhalo wakhe othi, The Windmill and the Giant: Double-Entry Bookkeeping in the Novel,umayelana nenqubo yocwaningo lwezenhlalo nokwakhiwa kwezindawo zodwa okwenziwa ababhali bezincwadi zamanoveli. NgoFebhuwari 2010, uBatuman washicilela incwadi yakhe yokuqala, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books kanye nePeople Who Read Them, ngokususelwa kulokho akushicilela phambilini kuThe New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, nakuN + 1, ebalula ulwazi ngokuhlangenwe nakho kwakhe njengomfundi othweswa iziqu zemfundo eStanford University.Ebuyekeza incwadi yeThe New York Times, umgxeki uDwight Garner uncome "injabulo ethokozisayo neyesabekayo ayizwa phambi kobuhlakani bemibhalo nobuhle."