Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee was born in Calcutta on 27 July 1940 into a well-off family; her father ran a pharmaceutical company. She spent part of her childhood in England and Switzerland, graduated from Calcutta and Baroda, and entered the writing workshop at the University of Iowa, where she met the writer Clark Blaise, whom she married. She lived in Canada from 1966 to 1980, taught at McGill, then in the United States, notably at Berkeley. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1988 and died in Manhattan on 28 January 2017.

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• NovelJasmineBharati Mukherjee · 1989Literature