Karan Mahajan

Karan Mahajan (born April 24, 1984) is a Joseph Henry Jackson Award-winning Indian novelist. Mahajan was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and grew up in New Delhi, India. He studied English and Economics at Stanford University. He currently lives in Austin, Texas. He has contributed writing to The Believer, The Daily Beast, the San Francisco Chronicle, Granta,The New York Sun, The New Yorker, and The Utopian.

Mahajan's first novel, Family Planning, was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "Brave, breakneck, and amusing"'; in The Seattle Times as "Pleasurably crazed"; and in the Washington Post as "Genuinely funny" and "Profound". Author Suketu Mehta described it as "The truest portrait of modern New Delhi I've read, and the funniest book of the year", and novelist Jay McInerney called it "one of the best and funniest first novels I've read in years".

Family Planning was published by the Harper Perennial imprint of HarperCollins, and released in the US in 2008 and the UK in 2009, with translations forthcoming in India, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Brazil, and Korea.