Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in Calcutta on 29 July 1956. A graduate of the University of Calcutta in 1976, she left the same year for the United States, earned a master's degree at Wright State in 1978 and then a doctorate at Berkeley in 1985, working as a child minder, a saleswoman and a bread slicer in a bakery. From 1991 she chaired Maitri, a helpline for South Asian women victims of violence, received the American Book Award for a story collection, and teaches writing at the University of Houston.

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• NovelThe Mistress of SpicesChitra Banerjee Divakaruni · 1997Literature