Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer is a British-born essayist and novelist who is based in Japan. He is author of numerous books on crossing cultures, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, and Cuba and the Night. A regular columnist for Time magainze since 1986, he has also written for Harper's, the Financial Times, the New York Times, and the New Yorker.