ADIB KHORRAM is the queer Iranian author of I'll Have What He's Having , which was an instant USA Today bestseller. He is also the author of the young adult novel Darius the Great Is Not Okay , which earned the William C. Morris Debut Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, and was named one of Time magazine's 100 Best YA Novels of All Time; his other young adult novels Darius the Great Deserves Better , Kiss & Tell , and The Breakup Lists as well as the picture books Seven Special Somethings: A Nowruz Story and Bijan Always Wins , have garnered critical acclaim, starred reviews, and bestsellers. He grew up in Kansas City--the Milan of the Midwest--but he'd rather be in the real thing, sitting on a patio, enjoying an aperitivo.