Thrity Umrigar
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Early life
Umrigar was born in Mumbai, India to a Parsi[1] family, and relocated to the United States at the age of 21.[2]
Career
Umrigar received a Bachelor of Science from Bombay University, an M.A. From Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in English from Kent State University.[3]
She has written for The Washington Post and the Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Huffington Post and regularly writes for The Boston GlobeTemplate:'s book pages. She is the Armitage Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She is active on the national lecture circuit.[4][3][5]
Works
- Bombay Time (2001)[6]
- First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood (2004)[7]
- The Space Between Us (2006)[8]
- If Today Be Sweet (2007)[9]
- The Weight of Heaven (2009)[10]
- The World We Found (2012)[11]
- The Story Hour (2014)[12]
- Everybody's Son (2017)[13]
- When I Carried You in My Belly (2017)[14]
- The Secrets Between Us (2018)[15]
- Binny's Diwali (2020)[16]
- Sugar in Milk (2020)[17]
- Honor (2022)[18]
- The Museum of Failures (2023)[19]
Recognition
- 2000 - Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard University[20][4]
- 2006 - Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award[21]
- 2009 - Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature[22]
- 2013 - Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian General Fiction category for her novel, The World We Found[23]
See also
References
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External links
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- American women writers of Indian descent
- Living people
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- Nieman Fellows
- Ohio State University alumni
- Kent State University alumni
- Writers from Mumbai
- American people of Parsi descent
- University of Mumbai alumni
- Case Western Reserve University faculty
- Writers from Cleveland
- Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction winners
- Parsi people
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women academics