Jhumpa Lahiri was born in 1967 in London and grew up in Rhode Island. Her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, received the O. Henry Award, a Pen/Hemingway Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her second book and first novel, The Namesake, was published in 2003, and a movie based on the book was released in 2007. Lahiri lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
Photograph by Marion Ettlinger.