The Namesake | Biography
Like her characters in The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri is of Bengali/Indian descent. She was born in London, in 1967, and was later brought to Kingston, Rhode Island, where she grew up. When it was time for college, Lahiri went to Barnard, where she received her bachelor's degree in English literature. Afterward, she taught creative writing at Boston University and at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Lahiri's first published book was a collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), which won the Pulitzer Prize. The topic of the stories in this...
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