Bharati Mukherjee  (b. 1940) LINKS India Times: Bharati Mukherjee http://www.indiatimes.com/people/humanities/bharati.htm India Times is a cyber-newspaper that features news on current events, arts and entertainment, technology, and finance in India. In this brief interview, Mukherjee discusses the risks of being categorized as an Asian American writer, her novel Holder of the World, and her life in Canada and the United States. South Asian Women Writers: Bharati Mukherjee http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/books_bios.html The South Asian Women's Network provides information on organizations, biographies of South Asian women authors, and links to film reviews, charities, and political organizations. It includes a good biography of Bharati Mukherjee and over 40 other South Asian women writers. World Literature in English: Bharati Mukherjee http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/india/mukherjee.html This site, maintained by a professor of English at FuJen Catholic University in Taiwan, is probably the best site on the Internet for information on Bharati Mukherjee. It includes Mukherjee's biography and background, a bibliography of her work, links to reviews of her work from the New York Times, essays, interesting interviews, and a critique of Mukherjee's political views. An Interview with Bharati Mukherjee http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~mosaic/spring94/page7.html A journalist from Mosaic, University of Pennsylvania's Asian-American Literary Magazine, interviews Mukherjee on this page. Though they discuss writing, their conversation focuses on how Mukherjee embraces American culture while still maintaining strong ties to her Bengali heritage. This site is a good resource for students writing about multi-culturalism. BIOGRAPHY Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940) was born in Calcutta, India. She lived in London as a young girl but returned to India at the age of eleven, where she subsequently attended Calcutta and Baroda Universities. After winning a scholarship to the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, she moved to the United States and married Canadian novelist Clark Blaise in 1963. The two then lived in Montreal where Mukherjee joined the faculty of McGill University until 1973, when they traveled to India. She and her husband kept separate diaries of their trip, which were published in 1977 as Days and Nights in Calcutta. Mukherjee's first novel, The Tiger's Daughter (1972), deals with the disappointment felt by an expatriate on her return to India. Her second novel, Wife (1975), tells the story of a psychologically abused woman who kills her husband. Mukherjee received the National Book Critics' Award for The Middleman and Other Stories (1988). She currently teaches at Queens College of the City University of New York. Her most recent works are The Holder of the World (1993) and Leave It to Me (1997).

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