About the Book: The Gene: An Intimate History
Nominated for Royal Society Science Book Prize Nominee (2016), Wellcome Book
Prize Nominee (2017), PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for
Longlist (2017), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science and Technology
(2016), The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2016)
About the Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher, a stem cell
biologist and a cancer geneticist. He is the author of The Laws of Medicine and
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which won the 2011 Pulitzer
Prize in general non-fiction and the Guardian First