Siddhartha Mukherjee,won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A History of Cancer."

Siddhartha Mukherjee

 Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Center. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School.Siddhartha Mukherjee was born in New Delhi, in 1970. He went to school at St. Columbus's School. He majored in biology at Stanford University, then won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University where he earned a Ph.D. in immunology. After graduation, he attended Harvard Medical School to train as an internist and won an oncology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.
He has published articles in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, and The New Republic.Mukherjee lives in New York and is married to artist Sarah Sze. They have two daughters.

In 2011, Time magazine nominated Dr Mukherjee in its "100 most influential people" list, along with artists, performers, scientists and politicians.
In 2010, Simon & Schuster published his book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,detailing the evolution of diagnosis and treatment of human cancers from ancient Egypt to the latest developments in chemotherapy and targeted therapy. The Oprah magazine listed it in its "Top 10 Books of 2010". It was also listed in "The 10 Best Books of 2010" by The New York Times and the "Top 10 Nonfiction Books" by Time magazine. In 2011 The Emperor of All Maladies: A History of Cancer was nominated as a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. On April 18, it was announced that Mukherjee's book had won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, one of the most prestigious awards in the country.

According to the Pulitzer citation, the book by the New York-based cancer physician and researcher is "an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science".
                                           It carries a $10,000 award. India-born Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Centre.
The Pulitzer for general non-fiction is awarded to a "distinguished and appropriately documented book of nonfiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category".Jennifer Egan's "A Visit from the Goon Squad" has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for fiction,Former U.S. poet laureate Kay Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her collection "The Best of It: New and Selected Poems.

        

In his book, Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the "eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out war against cancer".
Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a historian's perspective and a biographer's passion.The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with and perished from for more than 5,000 years.
The "riveting, urgent and surprising" book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist.
It is a profoundly humane "biography" of cancer -- from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the 20th century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.

"From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteenth-century recipients of primitive radiation and chemotherapy to Mukherjee's own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through fiercely demanding regimens in order to survive--and to increase our understanding of this iconic disease," according to information on the book on Pulitzer's website.
The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments besides providing hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.

Congratulations Sid Mukherjee, May God Bless You, All the best for your future endeavors.