The Emperor of All Maladies

Name: The Emperor of All Maladies
ISBN: 9781439170915

Siddhartha Mukherjee

582 pages · about 10 hours
First published 2010
29 editions

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1 About this book

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist. Published on 16 November 2010 by Scribner, it won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

Good for readers who want: history and a long read.

Social science
History
Medicine
History, 20th Century
Civilization
Cancer
Leukemia

2 About Siddhartha Mukherjee

Born 1970

Siddhartha Mukherjee (Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী; born 21 July 1970) is an Indian physician, biologist, and author. His first book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010), won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and Guardian First Book Award, among other awards. It was listed in the "All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books" (the 100 most influential books of the last century) by Time magazine in 2011.

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