Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen previous novels-- Grimus , Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame , The Satanic Verses , Haroun and the Sea of Stories , The Moor's Last Sigh , The Ground Beneath Her Feet , Fury , Shalimar the Clown , The Enchantress of Florence , Luka and the Fire of Life , Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights , and The Golden House --and one collection of short stories: East, West . He has also published...See more

Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen previous novels-- Grimus , Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame , The Satanic Verses , Haroun and the Sea of Stories , The Moor's Last Sigh , The Ground Beneath Her Feet , Fury , Shalimar the Clown , The Enchantress of Florence , Luka and the Fire of Life , Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights , and The Golden House --and one collection of short stories: East, West . He has also published four works of nonfiction-- Joseph Anton , The Jaguar Smile , Imaginary Homelands , and Step Across This Line --and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008 . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature. See less