Fatima Shaik

January 9, 2024
Writer

Quick Facts

Fatima Shaik
Full Name Fatima Shaik
Occupation Writer
Date Of Birth Oct 24, 1952(1952-10-24)
Age 72
Birthplace New Orleans
Country United States
Birth City Louisiana
Horoscope Scorpio

Fatima Shaik Biography

Name Fatima Shaik
Birthday Oct 24
Birth Year 1952
Place Of Birth New Orleans
Home Town Louisiana
Birth Country United States
Birth Sign Scorpio

Fatima Shaik is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on October 24, 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

She received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study Aesthetics and Popular Culture at the University of Chicago in 1981. As an emerging writer, Shaik was named along with Rita Dove, David Bradley, Mark Mathabane, and Trey Ellis as one of five writers under 35 who “…will play a significant role in shaping the future of Afro-American literature in the 21st century.” Fall 1989 by the Forsythe County Public Library.

Shaik’s books for children include Melitte, a historical novel, which was nominated as one of the Best Books for Young Adults by YALSA, 1998 and praised by The Horn Book, School Library Journal, and Kirkus. The Jazz of Our Street was “a compact cultural history” said Kirkus. On Mardi Gras Day was one of the Best Holiday Books of 1999, according to the Bank Street College of Education.

Fatima Shaik Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Writer
House Living in own house.

Fatima Shaik is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Fatima Shaik 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Shaik was born in New Orleans and raised in the Historic Creole 7th Ward. Her father was one of the first black aviators in the state. Her mother was Lily LaSalle Shaik, a native Louisiana French speaker and poet. Both taught in New Orleans public schools. Shaik is of Bengali descent. Her grandfather Shaik Mohamed Musa immigrated to the United States in the 1890s, settling in Tremé, New Orleans in 1896. His grandfather was a shopkeeper, and married her grandmother, a black woman of Creole and Native American descent; he passed away shortly before the birth of their son, Fatima Shaik’s father.

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“Shaik’s strengths as a writer are in creating everyday dialogue, in painting her characters’ lives, in moving her plotlines quietly and slowly along. She brews her characters—their status, their intellect, even their skin color—slowly, like tea steeping in a porcelain pot.” Jim Concannon.

Facts & Trivia

Franco Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Fatima Shaik celebrates birthday on October 24 of every year.

On the 10 year anniversary of the storm, her essays showed the reality of a renewed but gentrified city on the websites of PEN American Center “Katrina 10 Years Later”, “We’ve Come This Far by Faith” The ROOT, and In These Times. “Selling Off New Orleans: Gentrification and the Loss of Community 10 Years After Katrina” also appeared as the In These Times cover story.

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