Akhil Sharma
| Akhil Sharma | |
|---|---|
| Born |
22 July 1971 Delhi, India |
| Occupation | Novelist, Professor |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University Stanford University |
| Notable works |
An Obedient Father (2000) Family Life (2014) |
| Notable awards |
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (2001) Folio Prize (2015) International Dublin Literary Award (2016) |
Akhil Sharma (born July 22, 1971) is an Indian-American author and professor of creative writing. His first published novel An Obedient Father won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His second, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.
Born in Delhi, India, he immigrated to the United States when he was eight, and grew up in Edison, New Jersey, where he graduated from J.P. Stevens High School. Sharma studied at Princeton University, where he earned his B.A. in public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School. While there, he also studied under a succession of notable writers, including Russell Banks, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Auster, John McPhee, and Tony Kushner. He then won a Stegner Fellowship to the writing program at Stanford, where he won two O. Henry Awards (1995 and 1997). He then attempted to become a screenwriter, but, disappointed with his fortunes, left to attend Harvard Law School.
Sharma went on to become an assistant professor in the creative writing MFA program at Rutgers University-Newark.
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