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Siddhartha Mukherjee

(1970) Physician Writer United States

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Siddhartha Mukherjee is a physician writer from the United States, best known for The Emperor of All Maladies.

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Born
July 21, 1970
Nationality
United States
Profession
Physician Writer
Notable works
The Emperor of All Maladies
Spouse
Sarah Sze

About Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian physician, biologist, and author. His first book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010), won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and Guardian First Book Award, among other awards. It was listed in the "All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books" by Time magazine in 2011. He followed it with The Gene: An Intimate History (2016), which was among The New York Times 100 best books of 2016, and a finalist for the Wellcome Trust Prize and the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. He won the 2019 Lewis Thomas Prize.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Guardian First Book Award Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Rhodes Scholarship Enlightener Prize PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Padma Shri in Medicine

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