Salman Rushdie is an author, novelist, essayist and sometime critic. He was born in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1947 and currently lives in New York City. His breakthrough novel was Midnight's Children, which won the Booker Prize in 1981, The Booker of Bookers in 1993 and The Best of the Booker in 2008. He attained some notoriety after the publication of Satanic Verses in 1989 when Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa prompting death threats from Muslin extremists. Many people (including myself), believe Rushdie's essays are finer than much of his fiction.
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