Siddhartha Deb

Born in north-eastern India, Siddhartha Deb is the author of two novels and The Beautiful and the Damned, a work of narrative nonfiction that was a finalist for the Orwell Prize and the winner of the PEN Open award. A columnist for the “Bookends” section of The New York Times Book Review and The Baffler, a contributing editor to The New Republic and a fellow of The Orwell Foundation, he is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Society of Authors in the UK, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies at Harvard University, and the Howard Foundation at Brown University. His journalism, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The Guardian, The New York Times, The Baffler, The Nation, n+1, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is currently working on a novel.