- medical history, social sciences, history, civilization
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist. Published on 16 November 2010 by Scribner, it won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, Nessa Carey
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 582
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Thorndike Press, Fourth Estate Ltd/Vintage/Icon Books
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- English, Japanese, French, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9781439170915
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Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 21 July 1970) is an Indian-American physician, biologist, oncologist, and author. Photo By Moody College of Communication from Austin, USA - This file has been extracted from another file: Siddhartha Mukherjee (34273728645).jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80810851
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