Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
‘Maybe I Do Have a Story to Tell’: Kal Penn on His Memoir
nytimes.comStarring in the buddy stoner comedy “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” is good material for a memoir. One might think that serving as a staffer in Barack Obama’s White House is good material for another memoir, by a different person.
But the actor Kal Penn writes about both experiences in “You Can’t Be Serious,” which Gallery Books will publish on Tuesday.
The book has attracted early attention for its most personal detail: Penn is gay, and engaged to Josh, his partner of 11 years.
Their relationship is conveyed in one chapter that is mostly about their earliest dates, during which they seemed comically mismatched.
