The Emperor of All Maladies

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist. Published on 16 November 2010 by Scribner, it won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

Prize history

• Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction 2011 Winner
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction 2010 Finalist

On these lists

• The New Yorker, the Best Books of 2025 No. 66