Amitava Kumar is the author of several works of nonfiction and four novels. His latest book, My Beloved Life, was praised by James Wood in the New Yorker as “beautiful, truthful fiction,” and Salman Rushdie called it “magnificent.” Kumar’s work has appeared in Granta, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper’s, BRICK, Guernica, The Nation, and many other publications. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Cullman Center Fellowship at the New York Public Library, and residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Lannan Foundation, and the Hawthornden Foundation. He is the Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College.
