Sayantani DasGupta

American novelist (born 1970)

Sayantani DasGupta

Born| 1970 (age 54–55)

Columbus, Ohio, U.S.

Alma mater| Brown University
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Official website
Parents|

* Sujan Dasgupta (father)
* Shamita Das Dasgupta (mother)

Scientific career
Fields| Narrative medicine and Public health
Institutions| Sarah Lawrence College
Columbia University

Sayantani DasGupta (born 1970)[1] is an American physician and author of Indian (Bengali) heritage.

## Early life and education

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DasGupta grew up in Ohio and New Jersey and completed her undergraduate studies at Brown University. She obtained her M.D and MPH degrees from Johns Hopkins University.[2]

## Academia

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Originally trained in pediatrics and public health, Sayantani now teaches in the Master's Program in Narrative medicine at Columbia University and the Graduate Program in Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a nationally recognized speaker on issues of gender, race, storytelling, and medical education,[3] and has been featured on the cover of Ms.,[4] in O, The Oprah Magazine,[5] in documentary films[6] and other media outlets. She is an associate editor of the journal Literature and Medicine.[7]

## Publications

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DasGupta at an autographing booth at BookExpo America in 2018, promoting The Serpent's Secret

DasGupta has been published widely in academic and literary outlets, and journals including JAMA, The Lancet, Ms., Literary Mama Magazine, and Hunger Mountain. She has written extensively with her activist mother, Shamita Das DasGupta, on mother-daughter experiences.[8][9][10]

She is the co-author of a book on Bengali folktales, author of a memoir about her education at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and co-editor of an award winning collection of women's illness narratives.[11] Her debut middle-grade novel, The Serpent's Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1), came out in February 2018. Her second book, Game of Stars (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #2), published in February, 2019, entered the New York Times Bestseller list in its debut week.[12]

## Bibliography

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### Children's books

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* She Persisted: Virginia Apgar (with Chelsea Clinton, illustrated by Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint) (2021)

### Middle grade books

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#### Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond

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* The Serpent's Secret (2018)
* The Game of Stars (2019)
* The Chaos Curse (2020)

#### The Fire Queen

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* Force of Fire (2021)
* Crown of Flames (2022)

#### Secrets of the Sky

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* The Chaos Monster (2023)
* The Poison Waves (2023)

### Young adult books

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* Debating Darcy (2022)
* Rosewood: A Midsummer Meet Cute (2023)

#### As a contributor

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* "Blue" in Two and Twenty Dark Tales: Dark Retellings of Mother Goose Rhymes (2012)
* "Daughter of the Sun" in Magic Has No Borders (2023)

### Adult books

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* The Demon Slayers And Other Stories: Bengali Folk Tales (with Shamita Das Dasgupta) (1994)
* Her Own Medicine: A Woman's Journey from Student to Doctor (1999)

#### As a contributor

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* Speculative Fiction 2013: The Year's Best Online Reviews, Essays and Commentary (2014)
* Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India: Outsourcing Life (also editor) (2014)
* The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (2016)
* Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion (2017)

#### As an editor

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* Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies (2007)

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## References

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1. ^ From:The Family of Women Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine, Jones, Carolyn; Lyon, Todd (1999). The Family of Women. Abbeville Press. ISBN 978-0-7892-0338-0.
2. ^ "Columbia University, Narrative Medicine Faculty", Sayantani DasGupta
3. ^ "The Healing Power of Story" Archived 2011-12-02 at the Wayback Machine, BUSINESS INNOVATION FACTORY's ONLINE ARCHIVE OF INNOVATION STORIES
4. ^ Ms Magazine[permanent dead link]
5. ^ Narrative Medicine - Patients Telling Their Stories. Oprah.com.
6. ^ "Latching On" by Katza Esson
7. ^ Literature and Medicine
8. ^ Das Dasgupta, Shamita, ed. (1998). "Sex, Lies, and Women's Lives - An intergenerational dialogue". A Patchwork Shawl:Chronicles of South Asian Women in America. Rutgers University Press. p. 111\. ISBN 978-0813525181.
9. ^ Shah, Sonia, ed. (1998). "Bringing Up Baby - Raising a 'Third World' Daughter in the 'First World'". Dragon Ladies. South End Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0896085756.
10. ^ Song, Min; Shen Wu, Jean Yu-Wen, eds. (2000). "Women in Exile: Gender Relations in the Asian Indian Community in the United States". Asian American Studies - A Reader. Rutgers University Press. pp. 324. ISBN 0-8135-2726-0.
11. ^ Announcing 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results,
12. ^ New York Times Best Sellers- Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover, March 17, 2019.

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* FAST
* WorldCat

National|

* Germany
* United States
* Israel

Other|

* Yale LUX