Moth Smoke was published in 2000 and won a Betty Trask Award for best first novel in the UK, was a runner up for the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It was accepted and he received his JD with honors.
He completely reinvented his novel, making the story into a trial and submitting it as his law school thesis. Hamid was accepted to Harvard Law School, but found he was more interested in writing than practicing law. It was at Princeton that Hamid took creative writing workshops and developed the draft of his first novel, Moth Smoke. After completing his schooling in Pakistan, Hamid attended Princeton University, where he graduated summa cum laude with a degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Mohsin Hamid was born in Lahore, Pakistan.
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