Pico Iyer. Author and Journalist.

Pico Iyer is the author of seven books of non-fiction - including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul, and two novels, Cuba and The Night and Abandon. He has also been writing for many magazines and newspapers around the world for more than a quarter-century, as a writer for Time since 1982 and a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books, the T.L.S., the New York Times, the Financial Times and many others. Born in Oxford, England, to parents from India, he was partly raised in California, has spent much of his life travelling everywhere from North Korea to Easter Island and lives now in rural Japan. His most recent book, The Open Road, draws on 34 years of talks and travels with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

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Pico Iyer is the author of seven books of non-fiction - including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul, and two novels, Cuba and The Night and Abandon. He has also been writing for many magazines and newspapers around the world for more than a quarter-century, as a writer for Time since 1982 and a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books, the T.L.S., the New York Times, the Financial Times and many others. Born in Oxford, England, to parents from India, he was partly raised in California, has spent much of his life travelling everywhere from North Korea to Easter Island and lives now in rural Japan. His most recent book, The Open Road, draws on 34 years of talks and travels with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.