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Co-presented with the GARDNER CENTER FOR ASIAN ART AND IDEAS, SEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSUEM. We are delighted to be helping present this evening with acclaimed historian, travel writer, and literary instigator William Dalrymple. Based in both London and New Delhi, he has written seven books, among them an evocative account of Delhi (City of Djinns), the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, and the Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal. He makes this first Seattle appearance for his newest work, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (Knopf), a book which has already been a top-ranked bestseller in India and the UK. "Dalrymple vividly evokes the lives of these men and women, with the sharp eye and good writing that we have come to expect ... But Nine Lives is different from his other works; it is not so much about places as about the religious lives of people who live in those places, and is a glorious mixture of journalism, anthropology, history, and history of religions, written in prose worthy of a good novel." - Wendy Doniger, Times Literary Supplement. "Gripping, and often very moving ... Characters rarely allowed into contemporary Anglophone writing about India are given an opportunity to describe their deepest aspirations without the slightest hint of authorial condescension." - Pankaj Mishra, The National. In addition to his writing, William Dalrymple, with writer Namita Gokhale, is co-artistic director of the wonderful Jaipur Literature Festival, held annually in January. The 2010 festival featured a number of the people from Nine Lives, making for some remarkable presentations of words and music. Free entry with Seattle Asian Art Museum admission. The Seattle Asian Art Museum is at 1400 East Prospect in Volunteer Park. For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, or see www.seattleartmuseum.org.
