Mayukh Sen is the author of Love, Queenie—a finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography—and Taste Makers. He is a 2026 United States Artists Fellow and teaches film and television reporting and criticism at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

"[I]t takes chutzpah and sympathy to write a biography about Oberon, but Mayukh Sen has both... He also writes movingly in the book’s introduction of his youthful empathy for the closet that Queenie Thompson built for herself and never left."

Mayukh Sen is the author of Love, Queenie—a finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography—and Taste Makers. He is a 2026 United States Artists Fellow and teaches film and television reporting and criticism at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

"[I]t takes chutzpah and sympathy to write a biography about Oberon, but Mayukh Sen has both... He also writes movingly in the book’s introduction of his youthful empathy for the closet that Queenie Thompson built for herself and never left."

Mayukh Sen is the author of Love, Queenie—a finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography—and Taste Makers. He is a 2026 United States Artists Fellow and teaches film and television reporting and criticism at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

"[I]t takes chutzpah and sympathy to write a biography about Oberon, but Mayukh Sen has both... He also writes movingly in the book’s introduction of his youthful empathy for the closet that Queenie Thompson built for herself and never left."