Jhumpa Lahiri is an acclaimed chronicler of the Bengali-immigrant experience. Born in London in 1967 to Indian immigrant parents, her family moved to the US when she was three and settled in Kingston, Rhode Island. Lahiri’s short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won a Pulitzer Prize and she produced her first novel, The Namesake, in 2003. Lahiri is married with two children and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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