Drawn from a three-decades-long conversation with the Dalai Lama, Iyer's book explores the hidden life, the singular thinking, and the daily challenges of a global icon.
Pico Iyer is the author of six works of nonfiction and two novels, including The Open Road: The Global Journey of the XIVth Dalai Lama. He has covered the Tibetan question for Time, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications for more than twenty years. He lives in suburban Japan. Tom Curwen is an editor-at-large for the Los Angeles Times. He has worked as the editor of the Times' Outdoors section, and from 1996 to 2002, he was the deputy editor of the Book Review. His work as a feature writer has been honored by the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors, and in 2002 he was a recipient of a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism.