André Aciman is an Italian-American writer, born on 2 January 1951 in Alexandria, Egypt. Raised in a Sephardic Jewish family, Aciman spent part of his adolescence in Italy before his family moved to New York in 1968. He is a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust. Aciman has also taught creative writing at New York University and French literature at Princeton and Bard College. In 2009, he served as Visiting Distinguished Writer at Wesleyan University.

Aciman is the author of several novels, including Call Me by Your Name (winner, in the Gay Fiction category, of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award and later adapted into a film) and a 1995 memoir, Out of Egypt, which won a Whiting Award. Despite being best known for Call Me by Your Name, Aciman stated in a 2019 interview that he considers Eight White Nights his best book. He has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust, with his work appearing in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The New Republic, among others. Aciman received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and is currently chair of the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature and founder and director of The Writers' Institute at the Graduate Center.