Amitava Kumar(2016)
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Amitava Kumar is the author of several books of nonfiction and a novel. His essay “Pyre,” first published in Granta, was selected by Jonathan Franzen for Best American Essays 2016. Kumar is the Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College. This year, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Nonfiction
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