21 April,2011 11:19 AM IST | | Special Features
The literary world is celebrating. Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee has bagged this year's Pulitzer prize in the general non-fiction category for his book 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.' CS tells you more about the writer:
>>u00a0Siddhartha was born in New Delhi, India. He went to school at St. Columba's School. He majored in biology at Stanford University, then won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University where he earned a PhD in immunology. After graduation, he attended Harvard Medical School to train as an internist and won an oncology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.
>> Siddharthau00a0 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 2011, Time magazine nominated Siddhartha as one of the 100 most influential people along with artists, performers, scientists and politicians.
>>u00a0Siddhartha's wife, Sarah Sze, is a sculptor. He has two daughters - Leela, aged five-and-a-half, and Arya, who is just over a year old.
