Suketu mehta biography of christopher

New York-based author

Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award.^[1] His autobiographical account of his experiences in Mumbai, Maximum City, was published in 2004.^[2] The book, based on two and a half years of research,^[3] explores the underbelly of the city.^[2]

He has won a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction.

Mehta’s work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s, Time, Newsweek, The New York Review of Books^[4] and Scroll.in,^[5]