Boston Book Festival

October 17-19, 2013

2011 Presenters

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Frontiers of Science 12:45 pm Trinity Church Sanctuary

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Siddhartha Mukherjee is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies, as well as a cancer physician and researcher. His work has been included in Best American Science Writing 2000, and he has published articles in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron, Journal of Clinical Investigation, The New York Times, and The New Republic. A Rhodes scholar, Mukherjee graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He is an assistant professor of medicine and a staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Center. 

LINKS:

New York Times book review of The Emperor of All Maladies

Interview on NPR

The New Yorker on the modern history of our "Cancer World"


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