Teju Cole
Teju Cole was born to Nigerian parents and raised in Lagos, where his mother taught French and his father worked as a business executive in chocolate export.
From an early age, Cole showed creative promise — reading at six and publishing cartoons in a Nigerian magazine by fifteen.
He later moved to the United States, where he spent a brief, unhappy year in medical school before dedicating himself to studying art history.
Cole's diverse background across Nigeria, Europe, and America deeply informs his writing.
He currently lives in Brooklyn.
