Indian-American physician Siddhartha Mukherjee has become the fourth person of Indian origin to bag the prestigious Pulitzer Prize 2011 in the general non-fiction category for his acclaimed book on cancer, 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer'. The first being Gobind Behari Lal way back in 1937 awarded with the Pulitzer in the Reporting category for his coverage of science at the tercentenary of Harvard University when he was working for Universal Service and similarly followed Jhumpa Lahiri for fiction for her collection of stories "Interpreters of Maladies" and Journalist-writer of Indian origin Geeta Anand.
