Salman Rushdie

-Born June 19, 1947

-Well educated family

-Studied at King’s College in Cambridge

Clarissa Luard Marianne Wiggins

Elizabeth West Padma Lakshmi

In 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on Rushdie

Grimus (1975)Midnight's Children (1981)Shame (1983)The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (1987)The Satanic Verses (1988)Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990)Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981 - 1991 (1992)Homeless by Choice (1992, with R. Jhabvala and V. S. Naipaul)East, West (1994)The Moor's Last Sigh (1995)The Firebird's Nest (1997)The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999)The Screenplay of Midnight's Children (1999)Fury (2001)Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992 - 2002 (2002)Shalimar the Clown (2005)The Enchantress of Florence (2008)The Best American Short Stories (2008, as Guest Editor)"In The South." The New Yorker, 18 May 2009

Novels:

"A fine pickle." The Guardian, 28 February 2009."Imagine There Is No Heaven." , extracted contribution from Letters to the Six Billionth World Citizen, a UN sponsored publication in English by Uitgeverij Podium, Amsterdam. The Guardian, 16 October 1999."Mohandas Gandhi." TIME, 13 April 1998.

Essays:

Midnight’s ChildrenSituated in India at the time of it’s independence

The Satanic Verses

Very controversial and the reason for Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa

Shalimar the Clown

International bestseller