Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, 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. In India, it won a Shitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar. A Burning was named one of the best books of 2020 by media including The Washington Post and The New York Times. Born and raised in Kolkata, India, and educated at Harvard and Johns Hopkins, she now lives in New York.