Alexander Aciman
American writer and journalist
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Alexander Aciman (born 1990) is an American writer and journalist. His work has appeared in Tablet Magazine,[1] The New York Times, Vox, The New Republic, The New Yorker online, Time magazine,[2] and The Paris Review online. He is a graduate of The University of Chicago, and when he was a freshman co-authored Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less, published by Penguin Classics.
- writer
- journalist
- screenwriter
- André Aciman (father)
- Susan Wiviott (mother)
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| Born | 1990 (age 35–36) New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
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Early life
Aciman is the son of writer André Aciman and Susan Wiviott, a non-profit executive. Aciman is a graduate of the University of Chicago.
Career
In spring 2009, Aciman and Emmett Rensin began turning books on their University of Chicago reading lists into short “tweets,” which became the basis for Twitterature.[3][4][5] He has also worked on the Netflix food documentary series Rotten as a screenwriter.[6]
Aciman has published journalism and essays in outlets including Tablet, Vox, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic.[7]
Personal life
Works
- Aciman, Alexander; Rensin, Emmett (2009). Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less. Penguin Classics.
