Karan Mahajan was born in 1984 in Stamford, Connecticut, and grew up in New Delhi. After a degree at Stanford University, in 2008 he wrote his first novel Family Planning, finalist at the International Dylan Thomas Prize and published in nine countries. In 2016 his second book, The Association of Small Bombs, immediately reached the “New York Times” best ten books of the year list and was a finalist at the National Book Award for Fiction. The book is a collective novel that investigates, with a great ability for introspectiveness and a fine narrative fluency, the intertwined lives of several characters, whose lives are all shaken after the explosion of a bomb at a New Delhi marketplace. Mahajan also writes essays and reviews for “The New York Times”, “The Wall Street Journal”, “The Believer”, “The Daily Beast”, “The San Francisco Chronicle”, “Granta” and “The New Yorker.com”. He currently lives in Austin, Texas. In 2017 he was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.