Megha Majumdar, author portrait
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Megha Majumdar

Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, the New York Times bestseller A Burning, was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, and the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal. It was a TODAY show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick and a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick. In India, it won a Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar. A Burning was named one of the best books of 2020 by media including The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic, Vogue, and TIME. Majumdar is the recipient of a Whiting Award, as well as of fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri and Hawthornden foundations. Born and raised in Kolkata, India, and educated at Harvard and Johns Hopkins, she now lives in New York.
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Tue Oct 14 | 07:00 PM
Greenlight Bookstore in conversation with Jordan Pavlin
686 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217-1609
Google Map

Fri Oct 17 | 07:00 PM
Reads & Company @ Upper Dublin Public Library in conversation with Emma Copley Eisenberg
520 Virginia Drive
Fort Washington, PA 19034
Google Map

Sat Oct 18 | 05:00 PM
Politics & Prose in conversation with Nicole Chung
5015 Connecticut Ane. NW
Washington, DC 20008-2024
Google Map

Thu Oct 23 | 06:00 PM
Harvard Book Store @ Cambridge Public Library in conversation with Allegra Goodman
449 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
Google Map

Sat Nov 08
Portland Book Festival
Portland, OR 
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Sat Nov 22
Miami Book Fair Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus
300 NE Second Avenue
Miami, FL 33132
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Mon Dec 01 | 06:00 PM
BOOK PASSAGE in conversation with Luisa Smith
51 TAMAL VISTA BLVD
CORTE MADERA, CA 94925-1145
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Tue Dec 02 | 07:00 PM
BOOKSHOP SANTA CRUZ
1520 PACIFIC AVE
SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060-3903
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Wed Dec 03 | 07:00 PM
POWELL'S BOOKS in conversation with Lydia Kiesling
1005 W BURNSIDE ST
PORTLAND, OR 97209-3114
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Thu Dec 04 | 07:00 PM
ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY
1521 10TH AVE
SEATTLE, WA 98122-3806
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