Adib Khorram

Biography

Adib Khorram is a queer Iranian American author of fiction for all ages. His debut young adult novel Darius the Great Is Not Okay earned the William C. Morris Debut Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Greatest YA Novels of All Time. His other young adult novels Darius the Great Deserves Better, Kiss & Tell, The Breakup Lists, and One Word, Six Letters have received critical acclaim, awards, and been bestsellers. His debut novel for adults, I’ll Have What He’s Having, was an instant USA Today bestseller; he followed it up with It Had to Be Him, which also became a USA Today bestseller and one of the New York Times’s best romances of 2025. He is also the author of the picture books Seven Special Somethings: A Nowruz Story, Bijan Always Wins (which represented Missouri in the Library of Congress’s Center for the Book’s 2025 Great Reads from Great Places), and Tea Is Love.