Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian-born American physician, scientist, and writer best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book was the basis of a 2015 film documentary, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, by Ken Burns for PBS Television. It was named one of the 100 most influential books written in English since 1923 by the magazine Time and one of the 100 notable books of 2010 by The New York Times Magazine.  A haematologist and oncologist, Mukherjee is also known for his work on the formation of blood and the interactions between the micro-environment ("niche") and cancer cells. In 2014, the Government of India conferred its fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, upon Mukherjee. He was born in 1970 in New Delhi, India. Mukherjee won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where he earned a doctorate (DPhil) in immunology from Magdalen College, Oxford. After graduation, he attended Harvard Medical School, where he earned his doctorate of medicine (MD) His postgraduate years consisted of a residency in internal medicine followed by an oncology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Mukherjee has published widely in scientific journals, including papers in Nature, Neuron, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, The New England Journal of Medicine and others.