Anita Desai
Indian novelist
Anita Desai FRSL, born Anita Mazumdar, is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Wikipedia
Born: 1937 (age 86 years), Mussoorie, India
Children: Kiran Desai
Spouse: Ashvin Desai (m. 1958)
Parents: Toni Nime and D. N. Mazumdar
Alma mater: University of Delhi
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