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Murad Kalam (born Godffrey Williams; Arabic: مراد قلم) is an American writer. Kalam was born to a Jamaican father and a white mother. His family moved around the country frequently before settling in the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, where he grew up. In 1999, Kalam graduated from Harvard College, where he studied writing under Jamaica Kincaid and published in the Harvard Advocate. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 2002. Kalam is a convert to orthodox Islam. His chosen name means "desire of the pen".