Harvard Book Store welcomes Anand Giridharadas—acclaimed journalist, on-air political analyst for MS NOW, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Persuaders, Winners Take All, The True American, and India Calling—for a discussion of his new book Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City. He will be joined in conversation by Junot Díaz—professor at MIT and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Anand Giridharadas is the New York Times bestselling author of The Persuaders, 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. Photo Credit: Philip Montgomery
Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of Drown, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, and This Is How You Lose Her. A recipient of the Rome Prize and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Díaz is professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
