Indian-American oncologist and author who wrote The Emperor of All Maladies (Pulitzer Prize 2011 — a biography of cancer), The Gene, and The Song of the Cell — among the finest medical science writers of his generation.
Created the most comprehensive and humanistic account of cancer and genetics for general audiences — The Emperor of All Maladies' Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of cancer (tracing its history from ancient Egypt to molecular oncology) showed that the history of a disease is also the history of human ambition, error, and persistence.
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