This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Mehta is an Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University and lives in Manhattan. He is a graduate of New York University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Mehta was born in Kolkata, India, to Gujarati parents and raised in Mumbai, where he lived until his family moved to the New York area in 1977. His latest book This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto, was published in June 2019 Mehta has also written original screenplays for films, including New York, I Love You (2008) and Mission Kashmir with novelist Vikram Chandra. Mehta’s work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s, Time, Newsweek, The New York Review of Books and Scroll.in, and has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, and NPR's All Things Considered. He has won a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction.

The book, based on two and a half years research, explores the underbelly of the city. His autobiographical account of his experiences in Mumbai, Maximum City, was published in 2004. He is a graduate of New York University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award.

Mehta was born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay and New York. Mehta has written original screenplays for films, including ‘New York, I Love You’. He is also working on a nonfiction book about immigrants in contemporary New York, for which he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. His book about global migration, ‘This Land is Our Land’, will be published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in June 2019. Mehta is an Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University. Mehta’s work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, Time, and Newsweek, and has been featured on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ and ‘All Things Considered.’ Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. He has won the Whiting Writers’ Award, the O.

Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of ‘Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,’ which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award.

Maximum City by Suketu Mehta