caption birth_place imagesize nationality notableworks article_title birth_date genre image employer name occupation alma_mater
portrait india 200px american `` `` johnny gone down '' -lrb- 2010 -rrb- the seeker keep -lrb- 2015 -rrb- off the grass '' -lrb- 2008 -rrb- karan bajaj
 1979 06 30 y fiction karan-bajaj-portrait . jpg aden + anais karan bajaj chief marketing officer and author indian institute of management , bangalore
karan bajaj

karan bajaj is an indian american author of three contemporary indian novels , keep off the grass -lrb- 2008 -rrb- , johnny gone down -lrb- 2010 -rrb- and the seeker -lrb- 2015 -rrb- .
bajaj 's first novel , `` keep off the grass '' , which became a bestseller with more than 70,000 copies sold in the year of release , was a semi-finalist for the amazon breakthrough novel award and was longlisted for the indiaplaza golden quill award .
together his novels have sold more than 200,000 copies in india .
