Madhusree Mukerjee
Madhusree Mukerjee is an Indian-American writer and journalist. She is the author of The Land of Naked People: Encounters with Stone Age Islanders and Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II. She is also a contributor to the People's Archive of Rural India and an editor with Scientific American.Early life and education
Mukerjee was born in West Bengal, India. She graduated from Jadavpur University with a degree in physics. After obtaining a PhD in physics from the University of Chicago—supervised by Yoichiro Nambu—she began post-doctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology.Writing
After Caltech, Mukerjee took up science journalism and worked for Physics Today for one year and Scientific American for seven years. She received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete her first book, The Land of Naked People. In her second book, Churchill's Secret War, Mukerjee documents the role played by the policies, as well as the racial worldview, of the war-time British prime minister Winston Churchill and his trusted friend and advisor Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, in the death and devastation caused by the Bengal famine of 1943 and the partition of India.Personal life
Mukerjee lives in Germany with her husband, who teaches physics at Frankfurt University, and their son.Selected works
