Suketu Mehta is a fiction writer and journalist based in New York. For his fiction he has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Mehta’s work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Granta, Harper’s, Time, Condé Nast Traveler, and the Village Voice, and has been featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Mehta also co-wrote the film Mission Kashmir. Maximum City has won the 2005 Kiriyama Prize for Non-fiction, was short-listed for the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Book Prize for Non-fiction 2005, and chosen as Book of the Year for 2004 by The Economist. Suketu Mehta was also a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize.