(Sharma, Akhil) Akhil Sharma se otè Family Life, a New York Times Best Book of the Year and the winner of the International DUBLIN LiteraryAward and the Folio Prize. His writing has appeared in the Moun Nouyòk, la Atlantik, Pi bon ti istwa Ameriken yo, and O. Henry Award Stories. A native of Delhi, he lives in New York City and teaches English at Rutgers University–Newark. In his story collection A Life of Adventure and Delight (W.W. Norton) Sharma delivers eight masterful stories that focus on Indian protagonists at home and abroad and that plunge the reader into the unpredictable workings of the human heart.