Firoozeh Dumas was born in Abadan, Iran and moved to Whittier, California at the age of seven. After a two-year stay, she and her family moved back to Iran and lived in Ahvaz and Tehran. Two years later, they moved back to Whittier, then to Newport Beach. Firoozeh then attended UC Berkeley where she met and married a Frenchman.

Firoozeh grew up listening to her father, a former Fulbright Scholar, recount the many colorful stories of his life. In 2001, with no prior writing experience, Firoozeh decided to write her stories as a gift for her two children. Random House published these stories in 2003.

For the past three years, Firoozeh has traveled the country reminding us that our commonalities far outweigh our differences…and doing so with humor. Everywhere she has gone, audiences have embraced her message of shared humanity and invited her back for more.

Firoozeh’s next book, Laughing Without an Accent, a series of autobiographical essays, will be published by Random House in May, 2008. ABC is currently developing a sitcom based on Funny in Farsi. 

Find out more about Firoozeh Dumas at her website.