
Bharati Mukherjee
Bharati Mukherjee was born in Calcutta. She is the author of five books of fiction - The Tiger's Daughter, Wife, Darkness, The Middleman and Other Stories (which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1989) and Jasmine - and two books of nonfiction written with her husband, Clark Blaise, Days and Nights in Calcutta and The Sorrow and the Terror.