Salman Rushdie
1 book analyzed
Biography
Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born on June 19, 1947, in Bombay — two months before Indian independence, to a Muslim family whose patriarch had educated himself into the professional class. Like Saleem, he left Bombay at fourteen (for Rugby School in England), and later attended King's College, Cambridge. He worked in advertising in London before Midnight's Children made him internationally famous in 1981. The novel won the Booker Prize and, twenty-five years later, the Booker of Bookers (the best Booker Prize winner of all time). In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his death over The Satanic Verses. He lived under police protection for a decade. In 2022 he was stabbed on stage in New York, losing sight in one eye. He continues to write.