Aravind Adiga is the author of the Man Booker Prize–winning best seller The White Tiger and a collection of stories, Between the Assassinations. He was born in Madras, India in 1974 and grew up in Mangalore. After emigrating to Sydney, Australia, with his family, he studied at James Ruse Agricultural High School, later attending Columbia and Oxford universities. A former correspondent for Time magazine, he has also been published in the Financial Times and The Times (London). He lives in India.

His website is at www.aravindadiga.com