Born in Kabul, Afghanistan November 04, 1948
Website: http://www.mirtamimansary.com/
Genre: History, Memoir

Mir Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author and public speaker. Ansary gained prominence in 2001 after he penned a widely circulated e-mail that denounced the Taliban and called on the United States to bring political change to Afghanistan. The e-mail was a response to a call to bomb Afghanistan "into the Stone Age." His book West of Kabul, East of New York published shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, is a literary memoir recounting his bicultural perspective on contemporary world conflicts. Ansary writes about Islam, Afghanistan, and history. His new book Destiny Disrupted retells the history of the world through Islamic eyes.

Ansary directs the San Francisco Writers Workshop.