Siddhartha Mukherjee
Indian-American physician and writer · United States · On the map · Doctors · Born 1970 · age 56
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.
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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.
