• ISBN13: 9789381523339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Niyogi Books
• Publisher Imprint: Niyogi Books
• Publication Date: February 16, 2013
• Pages: 160
• Original Price: INR 1495.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1000 grams

Ruskin Bond: The Mussoorie Years... is a delightful tribute to a friend of forty years. Ganesh Saili captures memorable moments in the life of Ruskin Bond, right from infancy to the present day. Presented in this book, interspersed with photographs and writing, is a unique offering that provides an insight into the life and times of Ruskin Bond. It makes interesting reading for all ages.

Ruskin Bond's first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novels (including Vagrants in the Valley, A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far), essays, poems and children's books, many of which have been published by Penguin India. He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.