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
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