Dumas, Firoozeh, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, Villard, 2003.

Dumas relates the story of her family coming to the United States from Iran when she was only seven years old. With lighthearted humor, she points out the challenges of living in a country whose culture is dramatically different from her own.

Farmaian, Sattareh Farman, and Dona Munker, Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem through the Islamic Revolution, Anchor, 1993.

Farmaian was the child of an Iranian Prince and the fifteenth of his thirty-six children. She lived a somewhat protected life in Iran until she became too politically involved and was sentenced to death. She escaped Iran and moved to the United States, where she wrote her memoir.

Hillmann, Michael C., A Lonely Woman: Forugh Farrokhzad and Her Poetry, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1987.

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