Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma (born July 22, 1971 in Delhi) is an investment banker and fiction writer.

Born in Delhi, India, he migrated to the United States when he was eight, and grew up in Edison, New Jersey. 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 several O. Henry Prizes. He then attempted to become a screenwriter, but, disappointed with his fortunes, left to attend Harvard Law School.

Sharma is the author of one novel, "An Obedient Father," for which he won the 2000 PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2001 Whiting Writers' Award. He has also published stories in "The New Yorker", "The Atlantic Monthly", "The Quarterly", "Fiction", the "Best American Short Stories" anthology, and the "O. Henry Award Winners" anthology.

Works

*Sharma, Akhil. 2000. An Obedient Father. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux.
*1995 (May). "If You Sing Like That for Me"— A Short Story. The Atlantic Monthly. 275(5):70-88.
*"Cosmopolitan," "Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules"

External links

*http://www.saja.org/akhilsharma.html