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Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of 'Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,'
which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a
finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4
Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the
Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the
Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta's work has been published in the New
York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harpers Magazine, Time, and
Condé Nast Traveler, and has been featured on NPR's 'Fresh Air'.
Mehta is Associate Professor of
Journalism at New York
University. He is
currently working on a nonfiction book about immigrants in contemporary New York, for which he
was awarded a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship. He has also written an original
screenplay for 'The Goddess,' a Merchant-Ivory film starring Tina Turner, and
'Mission Kashmir', a Bollywood movie.
Mehta was born in Calcutta and raised
in Bombay and New York. He is a graduate of New York University and the Iowa Writers'
Workshop.
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