Hawthornden Brooklyn in Conversation: Megha Majumdar with Robert Siegel

Megha Majumdar's second novel, A Guardian and a Thief, is a tense and remarkable novel about India, climate change, family, and the determination to survive, that was published in 2025 to much acclaim. She will discuss the craft and process of writing fiction with Robert Anthony Siegel, author of the memoir Criminals and two novels. Megha and Robert were writers-in-residence at Hawthornden Brooklyn in February 2025, and we look forwarding to welcoming them back for this event.

Taylor & Co. Books will have books available for sale.

Doors open at 6:00 PM. Space is limited. Exact location will be shared via a reminder email two days before the event. You will only receive this email if you RSVP.

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Megha Majumdar is the author of the novel A Guardian and a Thief, which was an Oprah’s Book Club pick, and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal, and the National Book Award. A Guardian and a Thief was also a New York Times notable book, a Washington Post notable book, and one of the ten best books of the year per The Atlantic and TIME Magazine. Her first book, the New York Times bestselling novel A Burning, was a TODAY Show Read With Jenna book club pick and a National Book Award nominee, among other honors. Her work has been supported by the Whiting, Civitella Ranieri, and Hawthornden foundations. Born and raised in Kolkata, India, she now lives in New York.

Robert Anthony Siegel is a writer and teacher. He is the author of a memoir, Criminals, and two novels, All Will Be Revealed, and All the Money in the World. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, The Paris Review, The Drift, The Oxford American, and Ploughshares, among other places, and has been anthologized in Best American Essays 2023, O. Henry Stories 2014, and Pushcart Prize XXXVI. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan, a Mombukagakusho Fellow in Japan, a Paul Engle Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and a Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at Hawthornden Brooklyn. Robert taught creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington for 22 years, helping MFA students write their first books. He has also taught at Hollins University in Virginia, Tunghai University in Taiwan, and the LaSalle College of the Arts in Singapore, and is a regular at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and a BA from Harvard.

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