Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman (born May 21, 1969) 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 9/11.

Her first novel, ''The Submission'', was published in 2011. According to a review of the book in ''The Guardian'', the novel tackles the fallout from 9/11 attacks. The novel was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2011. It lost out narrowly to Siddhartha Mukherjee's ''The Emperor of All Maladies''.

Waldman was also a national correspondent with ''The Atlantic'', 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 2010 from the American Academy in Berlin. Provided by Wikipedia