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| This first-time novelist has helped us to travel that brief but crucial
distance, from words on the page to dreams in our minds and hearts, and
made this bitter, brutal time somehow reachable. |
Growing up in both India and the U.S., Amit Majmudar wasn't entirely
sure where he belonged — until he found the library. "I became a citizen
of the library," he tells NPR's Renee Montagne. "And to this day, I
feel at ease only in a crowd of books. In some ways, I feel like I
am a book, to be honest with you." Majmudar straddles professional worlds as well — in addition to being Ohio's first ever Poet Laureate, he's also a radiologist. [From NPR's Morning Edition]
