Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller; The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction; and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in many journals, including Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters. Visit his website at: SiddharthaMukherjee.com.
"It's hard to think of many books for a general audience that have
rendered any area of modern science and technology with such
intelligence, accessibility, and compassion. The Emperor of All
Maladies is an extraordinary achievement."--The New Yorker
"With this riveting and moving book, Siddhartha Mukherjee joins the
first rank of those rare doctor-authors who can wield a pen as
gracefully as a scalpel: Jerome Groopman, Atul Gawande, Richard
Selzer. A magisterial, wise, and deeply human piece of
writing."--Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury
the Chains
"The Emperor of All Maladies beautifully describes the nature of
cancer from a patient's perspective and how basic research has
opened the door to understanding this disease." --Bert Vogelstein,
Director, Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins University
"A compulsively readable, surprisingly uplifting and vivid
tale."--O, the Oprah Magazine
"An elegant ... tour de force. The Emperor of All Maladies reads
like a novel ... but it deals with real people and real successes,
as well as with the many false notions and false leads. Not only
will the book bring cancer research and cancer biology to the lay
public, it will help attract young researchers to a field that is
at once exciting and heart wrenching ... and important."-- Donald
Berry, Ph.D., Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
"It's time to welcome a new star in the constellation of great
writer-doctors. With this fat, enthralling, juicy, scholarly,
wonderfully written history of cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee vaults
into that exalted company, inviting comparisons to ... Lewis Thomas
and ... Stephen Jay Gould."--Washington Post
"Rarely have the science and poetry of illness been so elegantly
braided together as they are in this erudite, engrossing, kind
book. Mukherjee's clinical wisdom never erases the personal
tragedies which are its occasion; indeed, he locates with
meticulous clarity and profound compassion the beautiful hope
buried in cancer's ravages."--Andrew Solomon, National Book
Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon
"Sid Mukherjee's book is a pleasure to read, if that is the right
word. Cancer today is widely regarded as the worst of all the
diseases from which one might suffer -- if only because it is fast
becoming the most common. Dr. Mukherjee explains how this
perception came about, how cancer has been regarded across the
years and what is now being done to treat its protean forms. His
book is the clearest account I have read on this subject. With The
Emperor of All Maladies, he joins that small fraternity of
practicing doctors who can not just talk about their profession but
write about it."--Tony Judt, author of Postwar and Ill Fares the
Land
"Siddhartha Mukherjee has done something that should not have been
possible: he has managed, at once, to write an authoritative
history of cancer for the general reader, while always keeping the
experiences of cancer patients in his heart and in his narrative.
At once learned and skeptical, unsentimental and humane, The
Emperor of all Maladies is that rarest of things--a noble
book."--David Rieff, author of Swimming in a Sea of Death
Mukherjee's magisterial history of cancer research is poorly served by Stephen Hoye's impersonal, tone-deaf narration. Mukherjee is a practicing oncologist, and his is a deeply personal account, replete with stories of his own patients and practice, that begs for an intimate reading. But Hoye is pedantic, dry, stentorian-everything that this book isn't-and his newscaster's delivery cannot convey the author's compassion for his patients or the suspense and thrill of scientific discovery that the book so brilliantly describes. A Scribner hardcover. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
"It's hard to think of many books for a general audience that have
rendered any area of modern science and technology with such
intelligence, accessibility, and compassion. The Emperor of All
Maladies is an extraordinary achievement."--The New Yorker
"With this riveting and moving book, Siddhartha Mukherjee joins the
first rank of those rare doctor-authors who can wield a pen as
gracefully as a scalpel: Jerome Groopman, Atul Gawande, Richard
Selzer. A magisterial, wise, and deeply human piece of
writing."--Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost
and Bury the Chains
"The Emperor of All Maladies beautifully describes the
nature of cancer from a patient's perspective and how basic
research has opened the door to understanding this disease." --Bert
Vogelstein, Director, Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins University
"A compulsively readable, surprisingly uplifting and vivid
tale."--O, the Oprah Magazine
"An elegant ... tour de force. The Emperor of All Maladies
reads like a novel ... but it deals with real people and real
successes, as well as with the many false notions and false leads.
Not only will the book bring cancer research and cancer biology to
the lay public, it will help attract young researchers to a field
that is at once exciting and heart wrenching ... and important."--
Donald Berry, Ph.D., Anderson Cancer Center, University of
Texas
"It's time to welcome a new star in the constellation of great
writer-doctors. With this fat, enthralling, juicy, scholarly,
wonderfully written history of cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee vaults
into that exalted company, inviting comparisons to ... Lewis Thomas
and ... Stephen Jay Gould."--Washington Post
"Rarely have the science and poetry of illness been so elegantly
braided together as they are in this erudite, engrossing, kind
book. Mukherjee's clinical wisdom never erases the personal
tragedies which are its occasion; indeed, he locates with
meticulous clarity and profound compassion the beautiful hope
buried in cancer's ravages."--Andrew Solomon, National Book
Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon
"Sid Mukherjee's book is a pleasure to read, if that is the right
word. Cancer today is widely regarded as the worst of all the
diseases from which one might suffer -- if only because it is fast
becoming the most common. Dr. Mukherjee explains how this
perception came about, how cancer has been regarded across the
years and what is now being done to treat its protean forms. His
book is the clearest account I have read on this subject. With The
Emperor of All Maladies, he joins that small fraternity of
practicing doctors who can not just talk about their profession but
write about it."--Tony Judt, author of Postwar and Ill Fares the
Land
"Siddhartha Mukherjee has done something that should not have been
possible: he has managed, at once, to write an authoritative
history of cancer for the general reader, while always keeping the
experiences of cancer patients in his heart and in his narrative.
At once learned and skeptical, unsentimental and humane, The
Emperor of all Maladies is that rarest of things--a noble
book."--David Rieff, author of Swimming in a Sea of Death
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