1. Sarah Jones and Brian Weiter Present

2.  Born July 11, 1967 (44)  Born in London, but immigrated to the US when she was 3  As she puts it, “I wasn’t born here but I might as well have been.”

3.  Born as ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী  Nilanjana Sudeshna  Took the name Jhumpa Lahiri because her teachers couldn’t pronounce her given name

4.  Started at Barnard College in New York where she earned her B.A. in Literature  Studied at Boston University where she earned three Masters degrees in the English field and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies

5.  Interpreter of Maladies (1999)  Which earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 2000  First individual writer from South Asia to win  Also earned the O. Henry Award for “Best American Short Stories”

6.  Sexy (1998)  Taken from her collection Interpreter of Maladies and published in the New Yorker  One of her few stories told in the first-person persepective  Deals with love, affairs, and guilt from a woman’s point of view.  Pages 1223-1239 of Volume E

7.  The Namesake (2003)  Novel published while living in Brooklyn  Discusses cultural assimilation issues as well as the values, beliefs, and practices of previous generations

8.  Later became a 2006 film adaptation of the novel  Starring Kal Penn (the guy from Harold and Kumar go to White Castle)  Lahiri has a cameo in the movie  Nominated for 2007 Gotham Awards for Best Film

9.  Appointed to the President’s Committee of the Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama in 2010  Won the Frank O’ Connor International Prize for Interpreter of Maladies for Best Collection of Short Stories in 2008

10.  Lahiri, Jhumpa. "Sexy." Norton Anthology of American Literature. 8th ed. Vol. E. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012. 1223-239. Print.  Wcislo, Katherine. "Jhumpa Lahiri." Emory University---English Department "Where Courageous Inquiry Leads" Emory University, Fall 2001. Web. 02 Apr. 2012..