Stephen P. Huyler with Paola Gianturco - Transformed by India: A Life (Corte Madera Store)

With a compelling story, wit, insight, and candor, American author Stephen Huyler leads the reader into the heart of India. It is a country and culture he knows and loves well. Beginning with his arrival on his twentieth birthday, he spins tales of a young man’s fascination that seasons into a rare relationship that has lasted half a century. Few foreigners have traveled as extensively in India as he. Huyler has learned to feel the pulse of the people. His innate adaptability has enabled him to be truly quiet, observing, accepting, and accepted by a remarkable range of individuals from maharajah to musician, Brahman to Dalit, and politician to potter. His memoirs are an evocation of an India rarely seen by outsiders: portraits of people, places, and customs. The book combines humor with pathos, delight with dismay, sacred with secular, and tranquility with suspense. His narrative flows and unfolds seamlessly through a life transformed by India. "Sweeping memoir imparting India’s rich beauty and diversity." —Publishers Weekly Booklife Editor's Pick "Throughout these reminiscences, Huyler is an unfailingly readable and genial narrator, effectively conveying the sights and sounds that made him fall in love with India and its people." —Kirkus Reviews “Stephen Huyler has compiled this book of delightful photographs and recollections as a tribute to the way his life has been transformed by his long relationship with India. Over more than five decades, he has been made welcome all over the country by people happy to share their culture, traditions, and way of life with him ... I share the deep respect and affection Stephen Huyler feels for this ancient land and am grateful to him for the efforts he's made to convey these feelings to his readers.” – His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet “Stephen Huyler’s work and insights are an inspiring, important introduction to India and Indians, and especially to women's identity and creativity in India.” — Paola Gianturco, Author, COOL: Women Leaders Reversing Global Warming, Wonder Girls: Changing Our World, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon, and Women Who Light the Dark A compelling storyteller, art historian, cultural anthropologist, photographer, and author, Dr Stephen P. Huyler’s inspiring account of his life combines wit, insight, and candor. Traveling the length and breadth of India, over more than 50 years, for an average of four months each year, he has documented the profound meanings and significance of rural India’s sacred art and crafts. Having learned to feel the pulse of the people, he has himself been accepted by a remarkable range of individuals from maharajah to musician, Brahmin to Dalit, and politician to potter. He has been the Consultant and Guest Curator for more than twenty-five major museum exhibitions of Indian art for Indian as well as international arts museums and other institutions, such as the American Museum of Natural History, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Natural Science, and the Mingei International Museum. Huyler is also a leading photographer of India. His extensive image archive has resulted in solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Smithsonian, the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), and the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging. Stephen Huyler has published six books: Village India Abrams (1984), Painted Prayers: Women’s Art in Village India Rizzoli (1994), Gifts of Earth: Terracottas and Clay Sculptures of India Mapin (1996), and Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion Yale University Press (1999). Daughters of India: Art and Identity Abbeville (2008), and Sonabai: Another Way of Seeing Mapin (2009). Paola Gianturco is an author and photographer who has documented women’s lives in 63 countries and has had seven books published, including COOL: Women Leaders Reversing Global Warming, Wonder Girls: Changing Our World, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon, and Women Who Light the Dark. Her involvement with women’s issues is long-standing; she has lectured in the US, Canada, France, the United Arab Emirates, and Spain. She spoke at UNESCO International Headquarters in Paris on International Women’s Day 2008; her photographs were exhibited there in 2009 and 2011. Paola co-developed and taught Executive Institutes on Women and Leadership at Stanford University, and also served on the Board of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID). She was a principal in the first women-owned advertising agency in the United States and is a current member of the International Women’s Forum. Paola presented a TED TALK in 2014 in Dubai. In 2013, Paola was named one of "40 Women to Watch over 40," and in 2014, she was named one of "21Leaders for the 21st Century" by Women's eNews. In 2017, the YWCA inducted her into the Marin Women's Hall of Fame.

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