Pulitzer Prize for
Indian Origin Doctor
Siddhartha Mukherjee 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 Non-fiction.
The two other books on the
shortlist were The Shallows:
What the Internet Is Doing to Our
Brain, by Nicholas Carr, and
Empire of the Summer Moon:
Quanah Parker and the Rise and
Fall of the Comanches, the Most
Powerful Indian Tribe in
American History, by S.C. Gwynne.
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to
Americans for achievements in
newspaper and online
journalism, literature and musical
composition. The prize is
administered by Columbia
University in New York City.
Dr Mukherjee is the fourth
person of Indian origin to win
the prestigious Pulitzer Prize.
The earlier three were:
1. Indian-origin journalist Geeta
Anand was among the staff of
the Wall Street Journal to be
awarded a Pulitzer in 2003 for
explanatory reporting;
2. Indian-origin author Jhumpa
Lahiri won the Pulitzer for fiction
for her book Interpreters of
Maladies in 2000;
3. Indian-origin journalist Gobind
Behari Lal had won the
prestigious prize for reporting in
1937
