Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee

(1970) essayist United States

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Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 1970) was a United States essayist, known for The Emperor of All Maladies.

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.

Known for:

The Emperor of All Maladies

Notable works:

The Emperor of All Maladies

Awards:

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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