Born in northeastern India, Siddhartha Deb is the author of two novels and the narrative nonfiction book The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India (2011). Recipient of the 2012 PEN Open Book Award and a finalist for the Orwell Prize for his nonfiction, Deb’s journalism, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Guardian, The New Republic, n+1, The Nation, Dissent, The Baffler, and The New York Times.