Stephen AlterStephen Alter is the highly praised author of seven books of fiction and four books of nonfiction, including Elephas Maximus: A Portrait of the Indian Elephant and Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage to the Many Sources of the Ganga. As a writer-in-residenceat MIT, he received both a Guggenheim and a Fulbright fellowship. He now lives and writes in India. Read More Read Less