Amitava Kumar author biography, plus links to books by Amitava Kumar.

Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar is the author of several works of nonfiction and four novels. Kumar's novel Immigrant, Montana was on the best of the year lists at The New Yorker, The New York Times, and President Obama's list of favorite books of 2018. His novel A Time Outside This Time was described by The New Yorker as "a shimmering assault on the Zeitgeist." Kumar's nonfiction books include The Blue Book: A Writer's Journal; Every Day I Write the Book; A Matter of Rats; Lunch With a Bigot; A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm A Tiny Bomb; and, Husband of a Fanatic. Kumar's work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Harper's, Guernica, The Nation and several other publications. Kumar has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Lannan Foundation. He is currently a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.

This biography was last updated on 02/27/2024.

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