Amy waldmann author biography

American author and journalist

Amy Waldman (born May 21, ) is an American author and journalist. She was a reporter with The New York Times for a total of eight years.

For three years she was co-chief of the South Asia bureau. Before that she covered Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and the aftermath of 9/^[1]

Her first novel, The Submission, was published in According to a review of the book in The Guardian, the novel tackles the fallout from 9/11 attacks.^[2] The novel was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in It lost out narrowly to Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies.^[3]

Waldman was also a national correspondent with The Atlantic,^[1] has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly, and won a Berlin Prize in from the American Academy in Berlin.^[4]

The Submission

Amy Waldman's first novel, The Submission, wa