Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie on June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India) is an Indian-born British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. He grew up in Mumbai (then Bombay) attended Rugby School, Warwickshire, then King's College, Cambridge in England. He is a British citizen. Following an advertising career with Ayer Barker, he became a full-time writer. His narrative style, blending myth and fantasy with real life, has been described as connected with magic realism. In 2004, Rushdie married for the fourth time, this time to prominent Indian model and actress Padma Lakshmi.

External links

• New York Times special feature on Rushdie, 1999
• A good collection of links plus short descriptions of his novels
• The Rushdie death threat affair
• Rushdie timeline
• Summaries of all his novels and links to interviews by Rushdie
• Rushdie's wife, Padma Lakshmi