The Common Foundation – 2016 Author Postcard Auction
Auction Ends: Dec 10, 2016 07:00 AM EST

Memorabilia

Personalized Postcard from Akhil Sharma

Item Number
139
Estimated Value
Priceless
Sold
60 USD to Ellen24
Number of Bids
3  -  Bid History

Item Description

Recieve a handwritten note from the bestselling author of An Obedient Father

 

Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi, India in 1971 and immigrated to the United States in 1979. Mr. Sharma's most recent novel, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize for Fiction.  His first book, An Obedient Father, a novel set in Delhi during the period of Rajeev Gandhi’s assassination. An Obedient Father won the Pen-Hemingway prize and has been published in numerous languages. He is also an award winning short story writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly as well as a number of other publications. Mr. Sharma’s stories have been anthologized three times in Best American Short Stories and twice in The O. Henry Award Winners. In 2007 Mr. Sharma was included in Granta’s list of Best Young American novelists.  Akhil Sharma joined the faculty of the Rutgers Newark English Department/MFA Program in Fall, 2011. He lives in New York city with his wife, Lisa.

 

Item Special Note

Personalized postcards make great gifts! Authors will mail postcards in time for the holidays.