Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian physician, biologist, and author who writes about medicine and science for general readers. His best-known book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, traces the history of the disease and won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. He followed it with The Gene and The Song of the Cell, and he also writes for The New Yorker and is a columnist for The New York Times.