About the Author - Lords of Serendipity

Randy Boyagoda is a novelist who writes about books and ideas for publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times, and the Financial Times. His fiction has been nominated for the Giller Prize and the Dublin Literary Award, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year. He is a professor of English and the director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto.