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'''''The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer''''' is a book written by [[Siddhartha Mukherjee]], an Indian-born American physician and [[oncology|oncologist]].
== ''The Emperor of All Maladies'' won the 2011 [[Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction]]: the jury called it "an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal".<ref name=Pulitzer>{{cite web|last=The Pulitzer Prizes|title=The 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners General Nonfiction|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2011-General-Nonfiction|accessdate=22 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-19/nri-achievers/29446649_1_cancer-indian-american-physician-award-winning-science-writer|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105055532/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-19/nri-achievers/29446649_1_cancer-indian-american-physician-award-winning-science-writer|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 November 2012|title=Indian doc's book on cancer wins Pulitzer Prize|date=19 April 2011|accessdate=29 September 2011|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|location=Boston}}</ref><ref name="NPR" /> ''[[The Guardian]]'' wrote that "Mukherjee manages to convey not only a forensically precise picture of what he sees, but a shiver too, of what he feels."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/23/emperor-maladies-biography-cancer-siddhartha-mukherjee-review|title = The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee – review| website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date = 23 January 2011}}</ref> ''[[Literary Review]]'' commended Mukherjee's narrative: "It is so well written, and the science is so clearly explained, that it reads almost like a detective story – which, of course, it is."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-unnameable|title=The Unnameable|first=Anthony|last=Daniels|website=[[Literary Review]]|date=March 2011}</ref> == Title ==
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