A Life of Adventure and Delight

Author Bio: Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma, author and narrator, was born in Delhi, India, and moved to the United States, where he attended Princeton and Harvard Law School. After graduation in 1992, he spent a year as a Wallace Stegner fellow in fiction at Stanford. His novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award and the Whiting Writers’ Award. His short stories have been published in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and The Best American Short Stories. His short story “Cosmopolitan” was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1998 and in 2003 was made into an acclaimed film of the same name. He has also worked as a screenwriter for television and film, and his book narrations include David Sedaris' Children Playing before a Statue of Hercules. He works as an investment banker in New York.