I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived in Hong Kong and America.
I was born on July 23rd, 1906, in Sarajevo in the province of Bosnia, which then belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy and later, in 1918, became part of Yugoslavia.