Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and art historian. He is the author of a novella, Every Day Is for the Thief (2007), a novel, Open City (2011), an essay collection, Known and Strange Things (2016), a photobook Punto d'Ombra (2016; published in English in 2017 as Blind Spot), and a second novel, Tremor (2023). Critics have praised his work as having "opened a new path in African literature."
Personal life and education
Cole was born in Kalamazoo, Mic...