Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for fiction for The Middleman & Other Stories. She is the author of seven novels, including most recently The Tree Bride and the best-selling Desirable Daughters and Jasmine; two collections of short stories; two books of non-fiction, co-authored with her husband, Clark Blaise; and numerous essays on immigration. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.