Anita Desai

Photography by Beowulf Sheehan

About The Author

Anita Desai is a renowned author born and educated in India. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody, and Fasting, Feasting. She is the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in New York.

Books by Anita Desai

Rosarita
By Anita Desai
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE SUMMER

From “world-class writer” (The Washington Post) and three-time Booker finalist Anita Desai, an exquisitely written stunning exploration of love, place, memory, history, and the secrets between a mother and her d...
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