William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of nine books, including the Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King, and, most recently, The Anarchy, a finalist for the Cundill History Prize and one of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019. A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, in addition to writing regularly for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the Guardian. In 2018, he was presented with the British Academy's prestigious President's Medal for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival. Dalrymple currently cohosts the podcast Empire with Anita Anand. He lives with his wife and three children on a goat farm outside Delhi.
