IMBOLO MBUE is the author of the New York Times bestseller BEHOLD THE DREAMERS, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was an Oprah’s Book Club selection.

Her second novel, HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE, about a fictional African village’s fight against an American oil company, was named by the New York Times as “One of the 10 Best Books” of 2021.

A native of Limbe, Cameroon, Mbue lives in New York.