Megha Majumdar is the author of the bestselling novel A Guardian and a Thief, which is an Oprah’s Book Club pick, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award, and the winner of the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. A Guardian and a Thief is also a New York Times notable book, a Washington Post notable book, and one of the ten best books of the year per The Atlantic and TIME Magazine.
Her first novel, A Burning, was a TODAY Show Read With Jenna book club pick and was longlisted for the National Book Award, among other honors.