WILLIAM DALRYMPLE

William Dalrymple explores the history, culture, and religions of South Asia through both travel writing and deeply researched narrative history. Born in 1965, he is the author of numerous acclaimed works, including City of Djinns — which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award — and White Mughals, which won the Wolfson History Prize, Britain's most prestigious history award. He is a co-founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival and served as a Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton University in 2012.