About: Stephen Alter

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Stephen Alter (born 1956) is an author of non-fiction and fiction, who was born and raised in India, where he grew up as the son of American missionaries. He lives in Littleton, Colorado and in Landour, India. He graduated from Woodstock School (where his father, Robert Alter, served as Principal from 1968 to 1978) in Landour and subsequently from Wesleyan University.

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  • ستيفن ألتر (بالإنجليزية: Stephen Alter)‏ هو أكاديمي مصري، ولد في 15 سبتمبر 1956. (ar)
  • Stephen Alter (born 1956) is an author of non-fiction and fiction, who was born and raised in India, where he grew up as the son of American missionaries. He lives in Littleton, Colorado and in Landour, India. He graduated from Woodstock School (where his father, Robert Alter, served as Principal from 1968 to 1978) in Landour and subsequently from Wesleyan University. He has taught writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the American University in Cairo. He has been awarded Fulbright Program and Guggenheim Fellowship grants and received an honorary degree from Wesleyan University. He is the founding director of the Mussoorie Mountain Festival. His memoir Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime received the 2015 Kekoo Naoroji Award for Himalayan Literature. His novel about Jim Corbett In the Jungles of the Night was shortlisted for the 2017 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. His most recent non-fiction book, Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth' won the Banff Book Award in the Natural History and Environment category. It also won the Kekoo Naoroji Award and was shortlisted for the Kamaladevi Chatopadhyay NIF Book Prize. (en)
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  • ستيفن ألتر (بالإنجليزية: Stephen Alter)‏ هو أكاديمي مصري، ولد في 15 سبتمبر 1956. (ar)
  • Stephen Alter (born 1956) is an author of non-fiction and fiction, who was born and raised in India, where he grew up as the son of American missionaries. He lives in Littleton, Colorado and in Landour, India. He graduated from Woodstock School (where his father, Robert Alter, served as Principal from 1968 to 1978) in Landour and subsequently from Wesleyan University. (en)
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  • ستيفن ألتر (ar)
  • Stephen Alter (en)
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