1. Jhumpa Lahiri

2. Life Details Born on July 11, 1967 in London, UK
Parents originally from India
Eventually moved to Rhode Island
Attended Barnard University (NYC)
Earned 3 Masters Degrees - Boston University

3. Professional Career & Works
Has taught Creative Writing at Boston University and Rhode Island School of Design
Wrote Interpreter of Maladies (Short Stories)
The Namesake (Novel)
Unaccustomed Earth (Short Stories)
The Lowland (Novel)

4. Interpreter of Maladies
Wrote in Cape Cod, Massachusetts
9 Stories published in 1999
Won Pulitzer and PEN/Hemingway Prize (and many others)

5. Her Writing Often autobiographical in nature
Focuses on immigration, assimilation, and cultural differences
"I hear sentences as I'm staring out the window, or chopping vegetables, or waiting on a subway platform alone," Lahiri said of her writing process in a 2012 interview with The New York Times. "They are pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, handed to me in no particular order, with no discernible logic. I only sense that they are part of the thing."

6. Works Consulted