Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer is the author of several books about cultures converging, including "Video Night in Kathmandu", "The Lady and the Monk", "The Global Soul", and, most recently, "Open Road". His articles appear often in such magazines as Harper's, Time, and the New York Review of Books. He lives in suburban Japan.

• The Best American Travel Writing 2004
• Cuba and Night
• Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
• Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
• The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
• Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign
• Video Night in Kathmandu And Other Reports From The Not-So-Far-East