Carla Power is an American author.

Early life and education

As a child Power lived in St. Louis, Missouri and also in Iran, India, Afghanistan, Egypt and Italy as her family moved around. She studied at Yale University, then gained an M.Phil. in modern Middle Eastern studies from St Antony's College, Oxford and a degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Carla Power

Career

Her book If the Oceans Were Ink was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize general nonfiction finalist.

Carla Power

Her book Home, Land, Security was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Carla Power

Books

If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran (2015) Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism (2021) ——————— Notes

References

External links

Official website

21st-century American women writers

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women non-fiction writers Yale University alumni Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni 21st-century American non-fiction writers