Megha Majumdar is the author of A Guardian and a Thief, which won the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal, was named a finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, and selected for Oprah’s Book Club. Her NYT bestselling debut novel A Burning was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. It was a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick and a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick. Majumdar is the recipient of a Whiting Award, as well as of fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri and Hawthornden foundations. Born and raised in Kolkata, India, she now lives in New York.
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