“The Yale Chronicles” is one of those rare books that intrigue and satisfy the reader on multiple levels. Rathna K. Prasad weaves a tale so vivid in its detail, you can almost smell and touch the long-ago world in which Elihu Yale grew up and fought his battles. Simultaneously, she draws you into the complex social dynamics that made him the man for whom the university was named, and the man so many of its modern faculty and students seemed inclined to ignore. A debut writer, this former engineer-turned-historian with personal roots in the Indian region where Yale flourished, brings him into a well-merited and long-overdue limelight.   

Elaine D.,

Fiction and Non-Fiction Author, South Africa