André Aciman is an Italian-American writer, born on January 2, 1951, in Alexandria, Egypt. He is a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust. Previously, Aciman taught creative writing at New York University and French literature at Princeton University and Bard College. In 2009, he was a Visiting Distinguished Writer at Wesleyan University.

Aciman has authored several novels, including Call Me by Your Name (winner of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for gay fiction), which was adapted into a film, and the 1995 memoir Out of Egypt, which won a Whiting Award. Despite being best known for Call Me by Your Name, Aciman mentioned in a 2019 interview that he considers the novel Eight White Nights his best work.