Teju cole biography

Nigerian American writer, photographer, and art historian

Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is a Nigerian American writer, photographer, and art historian.^[2] 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); and a second novel, Tremor (2023).^[3] Critics have praised his work as having "opened a new path in African literature."^[4]

Personal life and education

Cole was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Nigerian parents, and is the oldest of four children.^[1] Cole and his mother returned to Lagos, Nigeria, shortly after his birth,^[5][6] where his father joined them after receiving his MBA from Western Michigan University.^[1] Cole moved back to the United States at the age of 17 to attend Western Michigan University for one year, then transferred to Kalamazoo Coll