Anand Giridharadas, author portrait
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Anand Giridharadas

ANAND GIRIDHARADAS is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Persuaders, the international bestseller Winners Take All, The True American, and India Calling. A former foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times for more than a decade, he has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Time, and is the publisher of the newsletter The.Ink. He is an on-air political analyst for MS NOW. He has received the Radcliffe Fellowship, the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, Harvard University’s Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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The Persuaders

Events

Mon Sep 28
Books Are Magic @Public Records
233 Butler St
Brooklyn, NY 
Google Map

Thu Oct 01 | 07:00 PM
POLITICS & PROSE
5015 CONNECTICUT AVE NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20008-2024
Google Map

Sun Oct 04
Chicago Humanities Fall Festival @ Northwestern
McCormick Auditorium
Evanston, IL 
Google Map

Wed Oct 07
Town Hall Seattle Great Hall
1119 8th Ave
Seattle, WA 
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