Siddhartha Deb

SIDDHARTHA DEB was born in in Northeast India in 1970. He was educated in India and at Columbia University. His first novel was the semi-autobiographical The Point of Return , set in a hill-station that closely resembles Shillong in India's Northeast. His second novel, Surface , also set in Northeast India, is about a disillusioned Sikh journalist. He has contributed to the Boston Globe , the Guardian , The Nation , the New Statesman , Harper's , the London Review of Books , and the Times...See more

SIDDHARTHA DEB was born in in Northeast India in 1970. He was educated in India and at Columbia University. His first novel was the semi-autobiographical The Point of Return , set in a hill-station that closely resembles Shillong in India's Northeast. His second novel, Surface , also set in Northeast India, is about a disillusioned Sikh journalist. He has contributed to the Boston Globe , the Guardian , The Nation , the New Statesman , Harper's , the London Review of Books , and the Times Literary Supplement . He currently teaches at The New School in New York. See less