Lee Siegel
Lee Siegel, Emeritus Professor of Indian Religions at the University of Hawai’i, has published four non-fiction books, eight novels, and a translation of Sanskrit love poetry. He studied comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, fine arts at Columbia University, and he received a doctorate from Oxford University for his work on Sanskrit religious and erotic texts. Siegel’s writing has earned him a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, two Writing Residency awards at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center, a visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford University, and the Elliot Cades Award for Literature. He lives in Waimanalo, Hawai’i.
