About me
Los Angeles Times Finalist and Emory University Professor, Ruby Lal is the author, most recently, of VAGABOND PRINCESS: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan (Yale University Press, February 2024). Selected as one of the most anticipated 2024 non-fiction books by Ms. Magazine, and by History Today, Vagabond Princess has been lauded by the BBC, Times Literary Supplement, The Vogue, The Wall Street Journal and other national and international magazines and newspapers in the USA, UK and India. Ruby’s previous biography Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan (W. W. Norton, 2018) won the Georgia Author of the Year Award in Biography and was a Finalist in History for the LA Times Book Prize.