Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 1970) is an Indian-born Bengali American doctor and non-fiction writer. He is the author of the 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2011.
Early life
Siddhartha Mukherjee was born in New Delhi, India. He grew up in Safdarjung Enclave. His father was manager for Mitsubishi and mother a schoolteacher. Mukherjee went to St Columbas School. He then went to Stanford where he majored in Biology, then won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University where he earned a Ph.D. in Immunology. After graduation, he attended Harvard Medical School to train as an intern and won an oncology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Career
Mukherjee is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University in New York City. He is also a staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Center.
In 2010, Simon & Schuster published his book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, detailing the evolution of diagnosis and treatment of human cancers from ancient Egypt to the latest developments in chemotherapy and targeted therapy. The Oprah magazine listed it in its "Top 10 Books of 2010". It was also listed in "The 10 Best Books of 2010" by The New York Times and the "Top 10 Nonfiction Books" by Time magazine. In 2011 The Emperor of All Maladies: A History of Cancer was nominated as a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. On April 18, it was announced that Mukherjee\'s book had won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, one of the most prestigious awards in the country.
In 2011, Time magazine nominated Dr Mukherjee in its "100 most influential people" list, along with artists, performers, scientists and politicians.
What made Mukherjee write the cancer book
Mukherjee was having a conversation with a patient of stomach cancer who told him she was willing to fight the disease, but she wanted to know what exactly she was battling. Mukherjee couldn\'t answer her, nor could he name a book that would answer the patient’s query. Answering her was the urgency that drove him. He wrote the book mostly in bed, propped up on pillows, by mastering the "art of full indiscipline" .
Personal life
Mukherjee lives in New York and is married to artist Sarah Sze. They have two daughters called Leela and Arya.
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