Stephen Alter
Author · 16 books
STEPHEN ALTER is the son of American missionaries to the Himalayas, and was raised in India. The author of seven books for adults, he is the former Writer-in-Residence at MIT, and a recipient of a Fulbright grant. He currently lives in India with his wife, where he is researching his newest book for adults—a behind the scenes look at the world of Bollywood.
Series
Books
Island of the Phantoms
2008
The Cloudfarers
2018
Fantasies Of A Bollywood Love Thief
2007
Neglected Lives
1978
The Dalliance of Leopards
2017
Amritsar to Lahore
A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border
2000
The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories
1990
Ghost Letters
2008
Wild Himalaya
A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth
2019
All the Way to Heaven
1997
The Phantom Isles
2007
The Rataban Betrayal
A Novel
2013
Sacred Waters
A Pilgrimage to the Many Sources of the Ganga
2001
In the Jungles of the Night
A Novel about Jim Corbett
2016
Becoming a Mountain
Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime
2014
Elephas Maximus
A Portrait of the Indian Elephant
2004
