Ayad Akhtar received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama Monday for his play "Disgraced," which had its world premiere at Chicago's American Theater Company in January 2012. It's the story of Amir, a seemingly assimilated corporate lawyer of Pakistani Muslim heritage. Married to a white, Midwestern woman " a Christian and an artist " and employed by a Jewish law firm, Amir finally must confront many aspects of his conf…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:00PM on April 15, 2013