Plays
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Disgraced | 2013 | Buy |
| The Who & The What | 2014 | Buy |
| The Invisible Hand | 2015 | Buy |
| Junk | 2017 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| American Dervish | 2012 | Buy |
| Homeland Elegies | 2020 | Buy |
Ayad Akhtar is a Pakistani-American playwright and novelist whose work examines Muslim-American identity, capitalism, and the performance of assimilation. His play Disgraced (2013) won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and became one of the most-produced plays in America. His other plays — The Who & The What, The Invisible Hand, and Junk — tackle family, finance, and faith.
His two novels offer different approaches to the same themes. American Dervish (2012) is a coming-of-age story about a young Muslim-American boy in Milwaukee, while Homeland Elegies (2020), a Pulitzer finalist, blurs fiction and memoir to examine what it means to be Muslim in America after 9/11. Akhtar served as president of PEN America from 2020 to 2023.