Indian American, Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of pathbreaking books on the history of medicine, is on the long-list for the Wellcome Book Prize of a U.K.-based foundation.
Mukherjee’s latest book, The Gene: Genetics, History of Science, Medicine, is in the non-fiction category along with 12 authors, seven non-fiction and five fiction titles. The list have memoir, contemporary fiction, historical fiction and popular science, for which the Wellcome Book Prize is announced on Jan. 30, “showcase the breadth and depth of our encounters with medicine.”
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The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans, that governs our form, function, and fate and determines the future of our children, written on Mukherjee’s website.
Earlier, Mukherjee’s book, “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, has made it to the Wellcome shortlist in 2011. Books have to be recommended by the publishers and be published by a UK-based publisher in the previous year.
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Mukherjee a Columbia University assistant professor of medicine and cancer physician and researcher, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for The Emperor of All Maladies. He has written, The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor for Best Science Writing 2013. Rhodes scholar, he has graduated from the Stanford University, University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School. He has his articles published in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times and Cell. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters.
The shortlist will be announce on March 14, and the winner on April 24.
By Premji
